- Born July 28, 1979, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro is the producer of the documentary feature series Boundaries of Thought, starring Peter Greenaway, Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Levy, Camille Paglia, among other personalities. The four episodes are Crossroad (2008), followed by Digital (2008), Architects of Thought (2008), and Chaos and Order (2008). Davi also produced the five episodes of the on-line doc series Think Thank with David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Philip Glass and others. Among the highlights of this series are the Brazilian Film Academy awarded Back to Room 666 (2008), starring Wenders and the The Soul Detective, also written and directed by Davi, starred by David Lynch.
His first fiction feature was Beyond the Grave (2011), which he directed, written and produced. The fantasy themed feature film gained international acclaim, being selected for the Sitges International Film Festival (Spain) and awarded the Best Horror Feature Award at the Arizona Underground Film Festival (USA) and the Winter Film Awards (USA). It also won the Audience Choice Award for Best Latin American Feature at Montevideo Fantástico (Uruguay) and the Most Cool Film at Pollygrind Las Vegas (USA). The film was made by his production company, Lockheart Filmes Ltda.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Miriam T. Becker
- His favorite movies are Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), followed by Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and Blow Out (1981).
- Brazil needs an inventive and sophisticated genre cinema. Horror, science fiction, fantasy and action films are basics in any great country with a popular cinema, and in Brazil this is rarely remembered.
- Beyond the Grave (2010) is very close to an art-house horror film. There is a very personal and mythological universe behind this. This is not only a Brazilian take on the zombie genre, this is shaping into something really unexpected, even to us.
- [on Beyond the Grave (2010)] The script is a mix of everything I love about cinema and fantasy. It's a movie made with passion, heart and, a la Alejandro Jodorowsky, balls.
- [about Beyond the Grave (2010) and The Soul Detective (2009)] "Beyond the Grave (2010) is a popular movie with experimental echoes. I turned that around and made an experimental movie with popular echoes, resulting in The Soul Detective (2009). I was interested in questions of rhythm, internal movement and the search of new soundscapes.
- [about his interview with David Lynch for The Soul Detective (2009)] The interview was not made to be a piece of cinema vérité, but as a sound and vision experiment, to see how an opinion can become a fiction completely different from its original intent.
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