*Estamira has played at a number of international film festivals. It won the prestigious Fipresci prize at Vienna. 

*Director Marcos Prado, who's also a photographer, started his film career as a producer with The Charcoal People (1999) and Bus 174 (2002) before co-directing (with José Padilha, the primary director of Bus 174) a documentary featurette for television. Padilha now serves as one of the producers of this film. 

*No U.S. distribution at this point.