Lucy Ramos

Eduardo Moscovis

Emílio Farias

Carolina Amaral

Carla Elgert

HBO MAX premiered its first Brazilian series in July 2021: Os Ausentes, nominated for the APCA 2021 award for best series. Created by Thiago, who is also Chief Screenwriter, the series has 10 45-minute episodes. In 2022, he released the feature film The Second Man, written and directed by Thiago. Shot in Brazil and France, it was acquired by STAR PLUS, premiered at the LALIFF 22 festival in Los Angeles and won awards in Lisbon and Madrid. In 2025, he will release his new feature film The World I Know There No Longer Exists.

Diving into this visceral theme led me to investigate a scarce and essential feeling: love. It was an intense process to translate into images and plot what a world would be like with people marked by the absence of this crucial feeling in a society increasingly lacking in compassion.

Lucy Ramos

In 2024, Lucy was on air on TV Globo with the soap opera Amor Perfeito, where she played the character Lívia. The actress uses her voice on social media to give visibility to the racial struggle. On her Instagram page, and also on her secondary page, called: "Segundas Cacheadas", Lucy empowers thousands of women to free their curly hair. Her strong representation against structural racism has earned her several magazine covers. In her 15-year career as an actress, she has been featured in dozens of soap operas on TV Globo, and won the highly contested "Dança dos Famosos" in 2020, Lucy is the main interlocutor for curly hair in Brazil. In the cinema, Lucy has starred in 7 feature films, including "It Gets Darker Before Dawn" and the recently released feature "The Second Man", available on Disney's Star+ streaming service.

Eduardo Moscovis

Considered one of the greatest actors of his generation, known nationally, actor Eduardo Moscovis, starred in dozens of successful soap operas on Rede Globo. Recently, he was successful in Brazil and abroad playing the villain Cláudio Brandão, a psychopathic police officer, in the first season of the series “Bom dia, Verônica” which was featured in the Netflix catalog. Among the heartthrob's most recognized characters are: the unforgettable Julião Petruchio in the soap opera O Cravo e a Rosa (2000); Tito in Mulheres de Areia (1993); the Gypsy Tibor in Pedra sobre Pedra (1992); Carlão Moreno in Pecado Capital (1998); the villain Reginaldo in the great success Senhora do Destino (2004); the heartthrob Rafael in Alma Gêmea (2004); he played Léo in the special Louco por Elas (2012); and more recently he played another villain in Regra do Jogo, Orlando. He has also been in dozens of shows and in the cinema, such as the feature film: Meu pequeno Dicionário Amoroso 2, in 2015. He is currently performing in the play “Duetos”, a comedy by Peter Quilter, sharing the stage with actress Patricya Travassos.

Writer and Director
Thiago Luciano

Producers
Beto Schultz
Thiago Luciano
Domingos Meira
Gustavo Correia
Lucy Ramos

Executive Producers
Beto Schultz
Domingos Meira
Gustavo Correia

Director of Photography
Gustavo Correia

Production Design
Nidiacris Ribeiro

Original Score
João Paulo Mendonça [MBr]

Costume Design
David Loretti

Editing
Guilherme Pacheco