EXCLUSIVE: Rodrigo Teixeira of Brazilian producer-financier RT Features, whose Glaxo and Furies are screening in TIFF, has shared details of a new Brazilian police drama with Minotaur producer Marco Perego and the next project from Paper Tiger director James Gray.
Teixeira and Perego are preparing writer-director Erico Rassi’s 1992-set Die Like A Man, which will shoot in Brazil’s Goiás savanna region and explores masculinity in the vein of Unforgiven. Teixeira, whose credits include Walter Salles’ Oscar winner I’m Still Here, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, and Robert Eggers’ The Witch, said: “It’s one of the best films I’m making in my career.”
RT Features is lead-financing and produces alongside Perego, who will finance a portion. “I cried when I read it,” said São Paulo-based Teixeira. “Erico is part of the new generation coming up and has the potential to be one of the biggest Brazilian directors.” The RT Features founder also promised that while the film’s lead Irandhir Santos was little-known outside Brazil, that will not last long. “The film community knows Brazilian actors like Fernanda Torres and Wagner Moura. I’m going to introduce you to this guy.”
Gray’s Cannes world premiere Paper Tiger will make festival stops in New York and London and Teixeira said his longtime collaborator began work on a new screenplay six months ago. “He promised to deliver the script at the end of the year with a name. We’re aiming to shoot in 2027. It’s a period piece and it’s brilliant.”
RT Features shot six films in 2025 that have been playing the festival circuit and Teixeira has a packed travel schedule through mid-October.” Benjamín Naishtat’s mystery drama Glaxo receives its world premiere in TIFF Special Presentations tomorrow [Friday] and will next screen in San Sebastian and London. The plan is to wait until next awards season and push it to become Argentina’s Oscar submission.
Rami Kodeih’s Beirut bank heist thriller Furies gets its North American premiere in TIFF Centrepiece fresh from its debut in Venice Spotlight. “We had to stop production because of the war [between Lebanon and Israel] and it’s starting its festival run now and will also play TIFF and London,” said Teixeira. Domingo Sotomayor’s Chilean film La Perra played Cannes and has upcoming stops in San Sebastian and London.
Backed by private investors, RT Features finances or co-finances all its films, which include this year’s Rotterdam selection and Fantasia AQCC Award winner Bowels Of Hell by Gurcius Gewdner and Gustavo Vinagre; and Gabe Klinger’s Berlin comedy Isabel that heads to Zurich and London.
“The profile of Latin American cinema needs to grow,” Teixeira said. “We are one of the underprivileged parts of the world who are not being seen as best as we could, because we have great filmmakers, great films. Brazil had two films nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards in the last three years. We have great projects coming from this space and not only in Brazil but Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico.”
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