Fernando Grostein Andrade
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Fernando Grostein Andrade is an LA-based Brazilian filmmaker and media entrepreneur, represented by Untitled Entertainment. In 2019, he completed his film "Abe", starring Noah Schnapp (Stranger Things), Seu Jorge (City of God) and Mark Margolis (Breaking Bad). "Abe" has been accepted into 27 festivals, premiering at Sundance, and won the Children Jury Award at the 31st Kinder Film Festival in Vienna and the Audience Award for Best Narrative at the Washington Jewish Film Festival. The film will be theatrically released digitally in 2020. He created and directed Quebrando o Tabu, a documentary that discusses alternative solutions to the war on drugs featuring 6 heads of state, including Jimmy Carter and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. It was distributed in 22 countries and became a 2 season 10-episode TV series, show-run by Fernando. It also received the Mipcom Diversify TV Excellence Award in Cannes. "Quebrando o Tabu" spun off into an online media channel with 10 million followers becoming the largest human rights internet outlet in Brazil with the biggest Facebook engagement rate in all Brazilian media. Fernando was also one of the idealizers of Carcereiros, a 2017 Miptv award-winning drama TV series, of which he directed 5 episodes. Fernando was a member of the jury of "É Tudo Verdade" as well as the Netflix Prize for Brazilian cinema. He reactivated a theater group formed by inmates inside a maximum-security penitentiary called "Do Lado de Ca", later cast in many productions. Fernando co-founded "Mapa Educação", a youth movement that advocates for quality in public education in Brazil and directed the documentary "Wandering Heart", featuring Caetano Veloso and special appearances of Almodóvar, Antonioni and Giselle Bündchen. With an ever-growing online presence, Fernando's coming-out video on YouTube had 250k views and sparkled an online debate about acceptance in Brazil. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum through a group called Young Global Leaders, whose members include French president Emmanuel Macron, the PM of Finland Sanna Martin among others. Fernando is a columnist for two of the largest Brazilian media outlets: Folha de São Paulo and Veja.
