NOSTRO is a young production company based in Rio de Janeiro created to share and live from collective art, producing content for film and TV, and working beside different emerging talents. It was founded in 2016 by partner-producer Carlos Eduardo Valinoti to make sustainable and plural productions. Nostro presents projects by young authors growing in the country with the potential to be explored in several segments. These narratives have the potential for artistic and financial return with social responsibility and representativeness, generating different audiences' reflections.
​The production company's project portfolio includes films screened at prestigious festivals such as Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, Vancouver International Film Festival, Frameline, Warsaw Film Festival, São Paulo International Film Festival, and Festival do Rio. Among them are Malu (Sundance Film Festival 2024), directed by Pedro Freire, winner of five awards at Festival do Rio, including Best Film and Best Screenplay, with Nostro's association and co-production by Bubbles Project and TvZero, and The Last Days of Gilda, directed by Gustavo Pizzi, with Nostro as an associate producer—the first Brazilian series selected for Berlinale Series.​
NOSTRO TEAM
CADU VALINOTI
PRODUCER
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Eduardo Valinoti is a creative producer who graduated in Cinema at PUC-Rio with free executive formation in the United Kingdom. Experienced in documentaries, shorts, and feature films, he worked and created with important production companies in Brazil, having collaborated for Canal Brasil, OFF, Multishow, Band, and ESPN. In the advertising market, he has produced for Google, TEDx, Nike, Corona, Coca-Cola, Heineken, and Yahoo UK.
He was the production coordinator of "The Great Mystical Circus" by Carlos Diegues (Hors Concours at Festival de Cannes 2018) and also line producer of the award-winning films "Favela Gay" by Rodrigo Felha and "Fala Comigo" by Felipe Sholl, both of which won Best Film Awards at the Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival.
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Among his most recent works are "Malu" (Sundance Film Festival 2024), by Pedro Freire, winner of five awards at Festival do Rio, including Best Film and Best Screenplay; "Streets of Gloria" (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024), by Felipe Sholl; "Matar a la bestia", by the Argentinian director Agustina San Martín; "The Last Days of Gilda", by Gustavo Pizzi, the first Brazilian series selected for the Berlinale Series; and "Sick, Sick, Sick" (Directors' Fortnight, Festival de Cannes 2019), by Alice Furtado.
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Besides his work as a producer, Cadu devotes himself to authorial projects through his production company, Nostro. As a teacher, he has taught line production at the AIC (International Film Academy) and has been on the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival selection committee since 2017.