Bel Berlinck

Creator Context

Summary

Brazilian producer and executive producer who helped build O2 Filmes’ cinema and television division after beginning in advertising production. Her career includes City of God, City of Men, Antônia, Xingu, Blindness, The Pope’s Toilet, Trash, Cangaço Novo and other projects centered on poverty, race, class, Indigenous communities, women’s lives, migration and social inequality. She has repeatedly backed Brazilian stories focused on marginalized or underrepresented communities, including the women-led musical drama Antônia, the Indigenous historical drama Xingu and the refugee documentary Exodus: Where I Come From Is Disappearing. Her work also includes conventional commercial, genre and streaming productions, and there is no strong public record of partisan campaigning, activist statements or culture-war advocacy. The clearest pattern is representation-oriented Brazilian storytelling and socially grounded subject matter across a long producing career.