Bruno Fatumbi Torres
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Filmmaker, Actor, environmentalist, producer and impact producer, he won more than 30 individual awards in his career. He is a founding partner of Fatumbi Films, a brazilian production company exclusively dedicated to audiovisual production with socio-environmental responsibility.
In 2024, he joined the "Rede de Talentos Paradiso", which brings together leading brazilian audiovisual professionals who receive grants and support from the Projeto Paradiso to study or develop projects.
His short films won more than 80 awards, competing in festivals such as Huesca International Film Fest, Festival del Nuevo Cine Americano de Havana and International Film Festival of Valencia Cinema Jove. Early in his career, he won the SIGNIS AWARD, for his short films reflecting about cinema and spirituality, and produced the short MEU AMIGO NIETZSCHE (50 awards in Brazil and abroad; best short (audience award) and the "Fernand Raynaud" award at the Festival International Du Court Métrage à Clermont Ferrand.
Partner of Academia Brasileira de Cinema, in 2016 he was part of the selection committee of the Brazilian representative for the Goya Award, and in 2023 he is part of the commission of the selection committee of the Brazilian representative feature for the Oscars®.
In 2022, he released his first feature as a producer and director, A ESPERA DE LIZ, shot in Brazil and Venezuela. The production was recognized as the first in the history of Brazilian cinema to offset all carbon emissions from its production, with transparency and online public auditing. In 2023, A ESPERA DE LIZ was a finalist in the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix (Academia Brasileira de Cinema) - the most important award in the segment from Brazil - in four categories, including Best Original Screenplay and Best First Director in a Feature Film, both authorial nominations for Bruno Fatumbi Torres.
Also in 2022, he received the Audience Design Award from the World Cinema Fund - Berlinale as a producer, for the project A ONÇA, a film that denounces the progressive and devastating deforestation of the Brazilian savannah named Cerrado.
In 2016, he was developed strategies and was Master of Ceremonies at the 18th Assembly of RedLAC (Network of Environmental and Social Funds in Latin America). In 2018, he was master of ceremonies at the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Protected Areas of the Amazon Program (ARPA). And in 2020, he became the first Brazilian artist to offset the carbon of all his professional and personal activities, through the brazilian carbon credit companies Ecooar, Sustainable Carbon and Iniciativa Verde.
In 2025, he will shooting his second feature as a producer and director COLMEIA, in Brasília-Brazil and in the Atacama Desert - Chile, a co-production between Fatumbi Films, Dezenove Som e Imagens (Sara Silveira) and Quijote Films (Giancarlo Nasi). With 90% of the budget raised (R$ 6,500,00.00), the feature's theme is the degradation of nature and the oppression of the capitalist system.
In 2022, he took on the spiritual name Fatumbi (the power and wisdom of Ifá made me reborn), after receiving it from a sumptuous Nigerian babalawo at his Ifá initiation at the Oduduwa Temple in Nigeria.
In 2024, he joined the "Rede de Talentos Paradiso", which brings together leading brazilian audiovisual professionals who receive grants and support from the Projeto Paradiso to study or develop projects.
His short films won more than 80 awards, competing in festivals such as Huesca International Film Fest, Festival del Nuevo Cine Americano de Havana and International Film Festival of Valencia Cinema Jove. Early in his career, he won the SIGNIS AWARD, for his short films reflecting about cinema and spirituality, and produced the short MEU AMIGO NIETZSCHE (50 awards in Brazil and abroad; best short (audience award) and the "Fernand Raynaud" award at the Festival International Du Court Métrage à Clermont Ferrand.
Partner of Academia Brasileira de Cinema, in 2016 he was part of the selection committee of the Brazilian representative for the Goya Award, and in 2023 he is part of the commission of the selection committee of the Brazilian representative feature for the Oscars®.
In 2022, he released his first feature as a producer and director, A ESPERA DE LIZ, shot in Brazil and Venezuela. The production was recognized as the first in the history of Brazilian cinema to offset all carbon emissions from its production, with transparency and online public auditing. In 2023, A ESPERA DE LIZ was a finalist in the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix (Academia Brasileira de Cinema) - the most important award in the segment from Brazil - in four categories, including Best Original Screenplay and Best First Director in a Feature Film, both authorial nominations for Bruno Fatumbi Torres.
Also in 2022, he received the Audience Design Award from the World Cinema Fund - Berlinale as a producer, for the project A ONÇA, a film that denounces the progressive and devastating deforestation of the Brazilian savannah named Cerrado.
In 2016, he was developed strategies and was Master of Ceremonies at the 18th Assembly of RedLAC (Network of Environmental and Social Funds in Latin America). In 2018, he was master of ceremonies at the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Protected Areas of the Amazon Program (ARPA). And in 2020, he became the first Brazilian artist to offset the carbon of all his professional and personal activities, through the brazilian carbon credit companies Ecooar, Sustainable Carbon and Iniciativa Verde.
In 2025, he will shooting his second feature as a producer and director COLMEIA, in Brasília-Brazil and in the Atacama Desert - Chile, a co-production between Fatumbi Films, Dezenove Som e Imagens (Sara Silveira) and Quijote Films (Giancarlo Nasi). With 90% of the budget raised (R$ 6,500,00.00), the feature's theme is the degradation of nature and the oppression of the capitalist system.
In 2022, he took on the spiritual name Fatumbi (the power and wisdom of Ifá made me reborn), after receiving it from a sumptuous Nigerian babalawo at his Ifá initiation at the Oduduwa Temple in Nigeria.
