Flavio Frederico to Direct Brazilian Bank Robbery Movie ‘Sà£o Paulo Heist'
Flavio Frederico (“Urbânia”) is directing Brazilian bank robbery movie “São Paulo Heist” (“Assalto Na Paulista”) about a notorious crime that went down in 2010.
Eriberto Leão (“Paradise City”) and Bianca Bin (“Cordel Encantado”) star.
Leão plays Rubens in the movie, a notorious criminal who decides to pull off one last heist with his adopted daughter Leônia (Bin) and his gang. The group set out to target a bank in the heart of São Paulo – Brazil’s financial center – but soon things go awry as the gang turn on each other. Soon, Rubens and Leônia are struggling with their own values as the tale comes to a climactic finale.
“Our main goal is to make a movie of high entertainment potential that is also artistic and deep” said Frederico. “In this sense, the film is simultaneously constituted as an action movie and as a drama, which is structured and built upon three distinct but intersecting narrative lines: the bank heist itself, the lives of the two main characters, and the growing tension of human relationships during the action.” Read More...