Mariá Velásquez
Company Paramount Pictures Brasil
Position Senior Local Product Manager
Paramount Pictures Brazil (a Skydance group company) has been active in the Brazilian audiovisual market since 1916, focusing on its original content while also fostering and supporting the development of Brazilian cinema through investments in local content. The distributor was responsible for releasing national classics such as *Vinicius* (2005), *Elite Squad* (2007), *Last Stop 174* (2008), *The Man of the Future* (2011), and *Raul – The Beginning, the End and the Middle* (2012), to name a few. Today, the studio acts as a co-producer on various domestic productions, including *Men Are from Mars* (2014), *Crazy to Get Married* (2015), *The Shaolin of the Sertão* (2016), *My Mom Is a Character 2* (2016), *My Mom Is a Character 3* (2019), *Monica and Friends: Bonds* (2019), *Monica and Friends: Lessons* (2021), *My Sister and I* (2023), *Toll* (2023), and *Chico Bento* (2024), among others.