Production

Tathiani Sacilotto

Born January 28, 1974 · São Paulo, Brazil (age 52)

Tathiani Sacilotto started has a lawyer and after dealing for some years with extreme cases and losing faith in humanity, she later started producing films in Portugal and so it went for the past 20 years. She is the co-founder of the production companies Persona Non Grata Pictures (Portugal/Brazil) and Diálogos Atómicos (Portugal). She has produced over 30 films, including features, documentarie…

Known For

Bela America

Bela America · 2023

MovieComedyDrama

Lucas, the cook, seduces America, the television star and presidential candidate. He will clandestinely enter her house to seduce her with extraordinary meals, causing the unlikely intersection of the fate of Lucas, the cook, with that of America, the President.

Embargoed

Embargoed · 2010

The making of of a making of. The Shooting of a feature. An unpaid intern. One theft. One making-of. The first movie... maybe the last.

Rockumentary

Rockumentary · 2006

MovieDocumentary

Following the lives of Bunnyranch members, Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André, we get to know the inside outs of a small but strong rock'n'roll wave that thrives in Coimbra.

Yellow Sunglasses

Yellow Sunglasses · 2021

Yellow Sunglasses

Julia, a thirty-year-old newly separated and in search of a life change, finds two new friends. The three begin to live an intense friendship that turns into a love triangle in which their frustrations and fears of not knowing if they will manage to be who they dreamed to be when they were younger.

Magnetick Pathways

Magnetick Pathways · 2019

Magnetick Pathways

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.

Jongo

Armindo and Helena celebrate their wedding anniversary.

El Justiciero

El Justiciero · 2009

MovieComedyDrama

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he will never be happy, decides to ask for help from the mythical Bolivian hero "El Justiciero".

That Weekend

That Weekend · 2021

Julia returns to her hometown and the neighbourhood she left years ago after being swindled. She’s here to sign a permit to authorize her daughter to move in with her father, but more than anything, she’s come back to recover money that she left there, and which would solve a lot of her problems. Returning to her past is nothing like she expected it to be.

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Bela America

Bela America · 2023

MovieComedyDrama

Lucas, the cook, seduces America, the television star and presidential candidate. He will clandestinely enter her house to seduce her with extraordinary meals, causing the unlikely intersection of the fate of Lucas, the cook, with that of America, the President.

Producer

Embargoed

Embargoed · 2010

The making of of a making of. The Shooting of a feature. An unpaid intern. One theft. One making-of. The first movie... maybe the last.

Producer

Rockumentary

Rockumentary · 2006

MovieDocumentary

Following the lives of Bunnyranch members, Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André, we get to know the inside outs of a small but strong rock'n'roll wave that thrives in Coimbra.

Producer

Yellow Sunglasses

Yellow Sunglasses · 2021

Yellow Sunglasses

Julia, a thirty-year-old newly separated and in search of a life change, finds two new friends. The three begin to live an intense friendship that turns into a love triangle in which their frustrations and fears of not knowing if they will manage to be who they dreamed to be when they were younger.

Co-Producer

Magnetick Pathways

Magnetick Pathways · 2019

Magnetick Pathways

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.

Producer

Jongo

Armindo and Helena celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Producer

El Justiciero

El Justiciero · 2009

MovieComedyDrama

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he will never be happy, decides to ask for help from the mythical Bolivian hero "El Justiciero".

Producer

That Weekend

That Weekend · 2021

Julia returns to her hometown and the neighbourhood she left years ago after being swindled. She’s here to sign a permit to authorize her daughter to move in with her father, but more than anything, she’s come back to recover money that she left there, and which would solve a lot of her problems. Returning to her past is nothing like she expected it to be.

Producer

Codename: Angola

Codename: Angola · 2015

Codename: Angola

MovieDocumentary

In 1961 the liberation struggles start in Angola against the portuguese colonial power. The African students in Portugal fear for their safety and plan to flee outside the country. With the help of Theology students, French and North-American pastors, the operation code name "Angola" fled over 100 african students abroad towards freedom, amongst them several future leaders of african countries.

Producer

The Survivors

The Survivors · 2025

Mid-19th century. A group of survivors from a wrecked slave ship, both black and white, end up on a deserted island, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. The fight for survival and power will flip the moral and social values of those days.

Associate Producer

The Scent of Things Remembered

The Scent of Things Remembered · 2025

The Scent of Things Remembered

An intimate drama about an aging war veteran forced into a retirement home, where he confronts the ghosts of his past and forms an unexpected bond with his Black caregiver.

Producer

Here's the Deal

Here's the Deal · 2013

Here's the Deal

Suso and Manuel, two-parent family and lifelong friends, met fifty years, they become unemployed. When the situation is no longer tenable, an unusual fact: one day, while fishing, find a package with ten kilos of cocaine.

Co-Producer

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory · 2012

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory

Posfácio works at the factory of Madam Cannon and dates her daughter Claudete. Everything would be going great for Posfácio, if it wasn't for terrorist plans from his work buddies Marques and Mendes.

Producer

The Dead Queen

The Dead Queen · 2018

MovieDramaHistory

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.

Producer

Retornos

Retornos · 2010

MovieDramaThriller

Álvaro, before escaping from himself during ten years, return to his town, a small village in Galicia, to attend to his father's funeral. There he will try to make it up with his brother and to recoup his daugther Mar. Everything gets complicated when he finds a dead woman in the road, the woman is Lidia, a Mar's friend who works as a prostitute.

Co-Producer

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone · 2007

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone

MovieDocumentary

José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war. All the people who were close to him were touch by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit.

Producer

Super Vodka

Super Vodka · 2012

MovieDramaAction

Three men try to be "masculine" again. A clerck, a Saints Salesman and a "house-husband" pack up and decide to travel... to a bar. This is a movie without words, where the communication happens through the eyes and of some violence too.

Producer

Embargo

Embargo · 2010

MovieComedyDrama

Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to his car, finding his life suddenly embargoed.

Producer

Pay Per View

Pay Per View · 2007

A blind man. A belvedere. One coin.

Producer

We Are Free

We Are Free · 2011

A photograph and a song from the Portuguese revolution, unite the three characters forever. This movie revisits them 30 years later and depicts what has become from the "revolution dream".

Producer

The Days Off

The Days Off · 2026

MovieScience FictionDrama

In the near future, during a relentless summer break and with a solar eclipse approaching, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place within her family and among girls of her age. As the moon seems to eclipse the animals and people around her, she meets REN__, an online friend, who introduces her to “shifting” – a practice where teens believe they can enter other realities through lucid dreaming.

Producer

The Beheading Game

The Beheading Game · 2013

The Beheading Game

Leandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master’s thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes’ controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian censors in 1973.

Executive Producer

From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work

From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work · 2011

From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work

MovieDocumentary

There are hundreds of sex workers to whom the protection of the law at a labour and civilian level is not recognised. For that reason, in a similar way to what happens in many countries, they demand the end of the discrimination, the change of the law and the social power that has been denied to them. This film is a journey into the underworld of sex workers and their struggle for labour rights.

Producer

Low Tide

Low Tide · 2012

What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away

Producer