Directing

Kapel Furman

Born January 11, 1977 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (age 49)

Kapel Furman is a filmmaker, screenwriter and special effects artist. Specialized in the fantastic genre, his stories, creatures, and effects have appeared in over 85 feature films. His work has been featured in media such as The Guardian, Moviemaker, Variety, Gizmodo and Sight and Sound, and presented in markets including Ventana Sur, Marché du Film, and the Brussels International Film Market.

Known For

Beyond the Grave

Beyond the Grave · 2010

Beyond the Grave

MovieHorrorAction

In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where the rules of reality are transformed by magic and madness, a vengeful police officer searches for a possessed serial killer in a battle of the not-so-good versus absolute evil.

Remanente: Voltagem

Remanente: Voltagem · 2026

Remanente: Voltagem

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

The Curse

The Curse · 2021

While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple in the form of a wound that feeds on raw flesh.

#eagoraoque

#eagoraoque · 2020

MovieDocumentary

An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?

Skull: The Mask

Skull: The Mask · 2020

Skull: The Mask

MovieHorrorFantasy

The story of an ancient mask that possesses the human form to commit visceral sacrifices of vengeance for the incarnation of its God.

Geist: 1922

Geist: 1922 · 2026

MovieScience FictionAnimation

Body

MovieDramaThriller

São Paulo, today. Bones are found in an anonymous grave and sent to the morgue. The coroner Artur deals with actresses and extremists. A body gets preserved for more than thirty years. An identity is searched...

Black & White

Black & White · 2018

MovieActionDrama

Nazism was born in Europe, but raised in South America. After World War II, thousands of Nazi criminals found safe shelter in Brazil and Argentina. His legacy of horror, however, remained hidden... until now.

Filmography

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Beyond the Grave

Beyond the Grave · 2010

Beyond the Grave

MovieHorrorAction

In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where the rules of reality are transformed by magic and madness, a vengeful police officer searches for a possessed serial killer in a battle of the not-so-good versus absolute evil.

Makeup Effects

Remanente: Voltagem

Remanente: Voltagem · 2026

Remanente: Voltagem

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Director

The Curse

The Curse · 2021

While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple in the form of a wound that feeds on raw flesh.

Special Effects

#eagoraoque

#eagoraoque · 2020

MovieDocumentary

An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Skull: The Mask

Skull: The Mask · 2020

Skull: The Mask

MovieHorrorFantasy

The story of an ancient mask that possesses the human form to commit visceral sacrifices of vengeance for the incarnation of its God.

Director

Geist: 1922

Geist: 1922 · 2026

MovieScience FictionAnimation

Director

Body

MovieDramaThriller

São Paulo, today. Bones are found in an anonymous grave and sent to the morgue. The coroner Artur deals with actresses and extremists. A body gets preserved for more than thirty years. An identity is searched...

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Black & White

Black & White · 2018

MovieActionDrama

Nazism was born in Europe, but raised in South America. After World War II, thousands of Nazi criminals found safe shelter in Brazil and Argentina. His legacy of horror, however, remained hidden... until now.

Visual Effects

Laio

While out with his friends for fun one night in São Paulo, Leandro is confronted with glimpses of his own violence. The film is loosely inspired by the homophobic attack that occurred in the Paulista Avenue area, in which teenagers used fluorescent lamps as a weapon.

Director of Communications

O Quintal dos Guerrilheiros

O Quintal dos Guerrilheiros · 2005

O Quintal dos Guerrilheiros

Inspector

Girls from ABC

Girls from ABC · 2003

MovieDramaCrime

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Homem Cego

The Smoke Master

The Smoke Master · 2023

The Smoke Master

MovieActionComedy

The journey of Gabriel and Daniel, two brothers cursed by the Chinese mafia with its feared Three Generations Revenge, who have already reaped the life of their grandfather and their father. To survive, one of the brothers must learn the Smoke Style secrets, a little known Cannabis martial art, taught by a single master, high up in the mountains.

Effects Supervisor

A Última Cova

A Última Cova · 2018

Clara and Fernando try to survive in a world separated by wars while looking for a safe place where they can rebuild their lives.

Producer

Lament

MovieDramaThriller

Elder manages the hotel inherited from his father. In his hands the hotel went from a luxury resort to a hotel on the verge of bankruptcy. Unsuccessful in his professional life, this failure is repeated in his social life with a marriage in ruins and with no prospect of improvement. At the limit of his emotional balance, Elder puts everything at risk when facing his demons and the consequences of his decisions.

Special Effects

Ninjas

In crisis after killing an innocent during action in the favela, a police officer is introduced into the unit of the "Ninjas" - extermination group that is dedicated to sadistically eliminating suspects of violent crimes.

Special Effects

The Yellow Night

The Yellow Night · 2019

The Yellow Night

MovieHorrorThriller

A group of friends travels to a beach house on an island on the brazilian seaside to celebrate the end of high school, a place virtually no one else inhabits and which is almost always dark. However, their drollery and parties are cut short by the feeling that the place shelters an unfathomable horror.

Stunt Coordinator

Bellini and the Sphinx

Bellini and the Sphinx · 2001

Bellini and the Sphinx

MovieCrimeThriller

Doctor Rafidjian turns to Dora Lobo's investigation agency to locate prostitute Ana Cintia. The case is in charge of Bellini and Beatriz, his new assistant. But the doctor is brutally murdered and the detectives infiltrate the night underworld of São Paulo in search of an answer, where they meet Fatima, a mysterious prostitute who gets involved with Bellini.

Special Effects

Horror no Cinema Nacional

Horror no Cinema Nacional · 2016

Horror no Cinema Nacional

MovieDocumentary

Mango Yellow

Mango Yellow · 2002

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.

Special Effects

Aterro Zeitgeist

Aterro Zeitgeist · 2026

Aterro Zeitgeist

A story about a strange island and its citizens with concrete heads, and a landfill where they believed they could rid themselves of their troubles—until a small clay carranca appears. A surreal tale about how every action has consequences.

Director

Grindsploitation

Grindsploitation · 2016

Grindsploitation

Exploitation anthology from the twisted minds of established and up and coming directors from across the globe.

Director

Bróder

Bróder · 2010

MovieDramaCrime

Three childhood friends plan meeting for a day in order to reassert their friendships and fight for their differences. One of them is involved with crime, one is a famous football player and the other struggles to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.

Special Effects

S.W. Metaxu-seq.01

S.W. Metaxu-seq.01 · 2013

S.W. Metaxu-seq.01

Director

If Nothing Else Works Out

If Nothing Else Works Out · 2008

If Nothing Else Works Out

MovieDramaCrime

In 2006, a group of three desperate misfits forms a strong emotional bond, especially increased when they decide to play a highly rewarding, but dangerous confidence game.

Special Effects