Horse Parade
Filmmakers:
Luciana Vieira, Gabriela Matarazzo
Producer
Claudia Chakmati
Production Company:
Rhiza
Country:
Brazil
Language:
Portuguese
Genre:
Coming of Age, Sports Drama
Lab Edition:
14
,
2026



SHORT SYNOPSIS
In the countryside of Brazil's Northeast, Filipa (17), a talented female jockey, struggles to balance her gift and ambition with her father Joel's (40) gambling addiction. As charismatic as he is irresponsible, Joel puts both the family's finances and Filipa's future at risk. Amid conflicts that strain the relationship between father and daughter and husband and wife, Filipa must make decisions she never thought she'd have to make, reversing the roles of the family nucleus in this coming-of-age drama.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
My fascination with horses led me to spend years researching amateur horse racing, and my desire to portray women entering spaces where they are rarely seen shaped ״Horse Parade״. Through Filipa's journey, I want to portray not only her ambition to become a successful jockey, but the emotional cost of confronting invisible rules. Blending sports drama with a coming-of-age story, I seek to create a vibrant, colorful, and emotionally charged debut feature. Guided by the actors' physicality and a mise-en-scène that privileges gesture over dialogue, the film reveals the complexity of contemporary northeastern Brazil through an intimate perspective, exploring themes such as gender inequality and gambling addiction.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
○ Luciana Vieira is a Brazilian screenwriter and director. She co-directed the short film “Blind Spot”, which screened at Directors' Fortnight, the Havana Film Festival, Vienna Shorts, and won Best Short Film Award at Festival do Rio. She is co-creator of the series “Se Avexe Não” (Netflix) and served as 2nd unit director on Karim Aïnouz’s “Motel Destino” (Cannes 2024), and on Allan Deberton’s “Feito Pipa” (Berlinale 2026). She is currently developing “Horse Parade”, her debut feature film.
○ Gabriela Matarazzo is a Brazilian writer-producer based in Madrid. She heads Content Development at Pródigo, a leading Brazilian production company, overseeing films, docs, and series for theatrical and streaming release. She also co-founded Rhiza, championing bold auteur and emerging filmmakers. Her credits include Emmy-nominated "Anderson Spider Silva" (Paramount+), Netflix's "Tragedy Foretold" and HBO's "The World Is a Game." She also wrote the dystopian short "2Brasis" on political polarization.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
PRODUCER:
Claudia Chakmati



Claudia Chakmati is an LA-based producer from São Paulo, Brazil. She has worked as a development executive at Archewell Productions under the company's Netflix overall deal, and prior to that at Wayfarer Studios, after coming up through physical production on titles like "Daisy Jones & the Six", "Jurassic World: Dominion" and "Kimi".
Claudia co-founded Rhiza in 2022 with her business partner, producing projects spanning scope, format, and genre: AFI DWW+ short "The Long Way Home", Macondo Award winner "La Perra" (Cannes 2024), and "Reconstructing Charlie" (Tribeca 2026), among others. Rhiza is also producing Victoria Fiore's narrative debut, accepted into both the Cine Qua Non and the Torino Next Film Lab this fall. With more projects in development across multiple continents and languages, Rhiza aims to become a global home for prestige, elevated fare that travels across borders.
PRODUCTION COMPANY PROFILE
○ Rhiza
○ 1325 N Poinsettia Pl, Apt. 7, Los Angeles CA 90046
○ claudia@rhizafilms.com
○+1-6179491474
PRODUCTION BUDGET
○ Total budget: 1,200,000 USD
○ Confirmed budget and source: 19,530 USD (Regional Script Development Fund)
LANGUAGE
Portuguese
Genre
Coming of Age, Sports Drama
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