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Luis Antonio Pereira

Luis Antonio Pereira began his career on stage as an actor in Ópera do Malandro, written by world-renowned Brazilian composer, Chico Buarque. He moved to Los Angeles and went on to perform in numerous plays, such as Broadway musicals Big River and The Sound of Music. Pereira developed a knack for producing and directed his first play, David and Goliath, featuring the prominent African American dance company, Wade. His success with the show led him to Major League Productions where he helped produce features through project development, screenplay analysis, budgeting, production management, and assistant directing. He continued to dabble in acting in productions such as Family Man and Little Nikki (Universal) while working on music videos for artists such as Backstreet Boys, Smash Mouth, and Bootsie Collins. Luis Antonio returned to Brazil in early 2000s, and started the production company LAFILMS.TV. He wrote and directed various short films, such as The Secret (2005), Mother (2008) and Happy Widow (2016), garnering attention and awards in over 50 festivals in more than 20 countries for each film. In 2007, Pereira had the privilege of directing/producing/writing Goals in Life, a film about the charity campaign highlighting Pelé. The film opened at the 2007 Fifa award ceremony and circulated amongst international venues for several years. In 2014, Luis Antonio premiered his first feature film - Jogo de Xadrez (Chess Game). This million dollar budget production was shot in Rio with an exceptional Brazilian cast: Priscila Fantin, Antonio Calloni, Tuca Andrada and Carla Marins. Chess Game garnered recognition in festival cities all over the world and has been distributed by Xenon Pictures. The film earned important awards, such as: best film (New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Hollywood) and best actress, Priscila Fantin (New York, Houston, Hollywood and Lisbon). He wrote, produced and directed a come back for radio soaps in Brazil, in 2018, called The Bollagattos with top Brazilian actors: Priscila Fantin, André Ramiro, Bianca Rinaldi, Paloma Bernardi. Luis Antonio directed, produced and written the comedy mini series East Wing for Brazilian TV (2019). In November 2020, will premiere the TV series Amelio, the True Man. The plot written and directed by him, has top Brazilian top actors, such as: Thierry Figueira, Natallia Rodrigues, Carla Marins, Edwin Luisi and Sandra Pera. He is finishing post production of his first direction in a international feature film Reús 2, Spanish Spoken, a co-production between Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, with great Latin actor, like: Marina Glezer and Nico Riera. The director is developing three feature films to shoot in 2021 e 2022: "António" co-production Brazil/ Portugal, "Stone Forest" with Murilo Rosa, and "Overtown", co-produção USA/ Argentina, to the shot in Miami, English/ Spanish spoken.

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