Experience

Independent Production

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• TROPICAL UTOPIA Researcher, Writer, Director

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  Director of feature doc "Tropical Utopia" sponsored by the Counseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec - under post-production.Link: https://vimeo.com/444102213 Director of feature doc "Tropical Utopia" sponsored by the Counseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec - under post-production.Link: https://vimeo.com/444102213



Independent Filmmaker

• Producer-Director-Writer

  • 2013 - Present

  2013 and 2019 - Worked as a Production Supervisor for Filmblanc (www.filmblanc.com) on a documentary called "Milk" about infant feeding and the rights of mothers and babies, shot in 12 countries and supported by the CBC: https://vimeo.com/119580864More recently, in 2019 coordinated the research and shooting in Brazil, of "Connecting the Dots", a Filmblanc's documentary about the world current youth mental health (release later 2020)2012- Created and coordinated a Transmedia training programme for TeleSUR, public broadcaster in Venezuela. 2014: Director: Ticket to Paradise for Al Jazeera international, released in 2014, about the Haitian immigration to Brazil: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/viewfinder/latinamerica2014/2014/02/ticket-paradise-2014212104057628175.html2012 and 2013- International jury for the Canadian Media Fund (CMF) Éxperimental streaming, helping to select multi platform projects, such as games, web docs and communication projects to production.2014/2015/2016: Developed 36 investigative reports for Telesur (Venezuela) shot in Brazil, for the series Crónicas, investigative shorts about the inhabitants of the city of São Paulo set under a social, cultural and political backdrop. (exemples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsI9h9VMBw4&feature=youtu.be, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sMK2u_x5kA ,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJ4ImTQN8E)



River Silence

• Documentary Director

  • 2015 - Present

  SYNOPSIS: The people who live along Brazil’s Xingu River are facing man-made Armageddon. The massive Belo Monte Dam, one of the world’s most contested infrastructure projects, has caused untold ecological and social devastation throughout the entire region, displacing more than 40,000 local residents. Director Rogerio Soares travels into this mythic and brutalized world to encounter some of its most vulnerable and inspiring inhabitants. Blending informed analysis with Baroque aesthetics and Latin American magic realism, he crafts an arresting and poetic river movie, offering a rare and deeply empathetic look into the lives of people caught in the ruinous path of “disaster development.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxDKTdpQCNI



Documentary Director

• Mother of the Amazon

  • Dec 2014 - Present

  Dec 2014- Director-writer-producer of "Mother of the Amazon", a documentary sponsored by Al Jazeera International about the struggle of a woman to protect her community from the construction of a dam in northern Brazil: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2015/08/mother-amazon-150810075332093.html Dec 2014- Director-writer-producer of "Mother of the Amazon", a documentary sponsored by Al Jazeera International about the struggle of a woman to protect her community from the construction of a dam in northern Brazil: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2015/08/mother-amazon-150810075332093.html



TAL- Television America Latina

• Content Director

  • Mar 2012 - Mar 2014

  Developer of Transmídia, WebDocs, Education, Documentaries strategies. Working closely with Latin American public broadcasters developing strategies and capacity building in formats. Co-creator of Colours of Football, an international co-production with 22 countries (Japan, Palestine, Iran, Mexico, Argentina, etc), a co-production effort between Red TAL and GLOMEX -Global Media Exchange:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVEWQzZl5bgActively participated in pitchings in Brazil and Uruguay and co-production meetings in Latin America.



Television America Latina - TAL

• Head of Content, Acquisitions, programming

  • Jan 2003 - Sep 2007

  Part of an international team that created the concept of a new non-commercial Latin American TV and IPTV content provider. Initially designed as a Latin American TV satellite channel, participated in the design and creation of the entire platform. Later, the project became a web platform. As Director of programming, created the entire programming strategy.Researched TV programs in commercial and public TV channels in Latin America.Prospected, selected and acquired, through donations and partnerships, more than 3.000 hours of high-quality television programs produced in 21 countries, for broadcast.Created TAL’s Program Dept for internet and television, writing manuals, establishing procedures, methodologies and criteria. Trained the programming team and worked closely with it to maintain a constant flow of creative processes in programming and production.Part of the commissioning editing team: defined in house production through pitching and invitation. Managed special projects (campaigns, short visual pieces, vignettes, etc). Supervised internet site and TV Graphics. Worked promoting the project internationally. Attended meetings and conferences to advertise the network – currently, more than 160 TV members.institutions.Link : https://www.redtal.tv/en



TV Escola - Ministry of Education - Brazil

• Head of Acquisitions and Programming

  • Jul 1999 - Jan 2003

  Directed the programming and acquisitions of TV ESCOLA, a TV network owned by the Ministry of Education of Brazil reaching an average of 30 million viewers (terrestrial-cable-satellite).Responsible for the entire programming concept, attending international TV markets MIPCOM, MIPTV, LATIN AMERICAN SCREENS, WORLD EDUCATION MARKET, TVFI markets (Miami and St Tropez), FIRST VIEW.Acquired educational and cultural TV programs (fiction, non-fiction, animation, etc) for a 24 hours scheduleCoordinated the publishing of pedagogical contents for the TV magazine: 1 million issues bimonthlyMonitored the production of more than 4.000 hours of TV programs locally produced (documentary series and on-air programs)Member of the commission editing team planning the productions yearlyPromoted the channel, attending regional and international events, workshops and festivals talking about its successful experience.Responsible for all contracts and clearances; for overseeing translation, subtitling and final versions of programs in PortugueseLink: https://tvescola.org.br/



UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

• Media and Environmental Education Consultant

  • 1998 - 1999

  Specialist in media communications and environmental education, created an outreach programme for UNDP's environmental education programme in the Amazon, producing videos, writing newspaper articles and creating a weekly radio programme with the collaboration of around 80 citizen journalists who worked as volunteers, generating news from different locations in the Amazon. The success of this job lead me to an invitation to direct the Amazon National Radio, a public radio broadcast in Brazil, where I stayed for 6 months, redesigning its programming, creating with a team of 29 journalists and producers, content for the amazon region through radio. The new programs included issues of ecology, education, ethinicity, human rights, gender, reproductive rights and youth.