Brazil’s RT Features Give U.S. Independent Films a Boost

To find one of the biggest impact players on the American indie scene, you have to go to Sao Paulo.

This story first appeared in the February 09, 2016 issue of Variety.

Rodrigo Teixeira’s Brazil-based RT Features has produced Sundance hits “Indignation” by directorJames Schamus and “Little Men” by Ira Sachs, and heading to Berlin, it’s also behind James Gray’s sci-fier “To the Stars,” and has inked a joint production venture with Martin Scorsese.

Teixeira’s track record is extraordinary for any producer, no matter the nationality: RT has developed work with Noah Baumbach (“Frances Ha,” “Mistress America”), Kelly Reichardt (“Night Moves”), Sachs (“Love Is Strange”), Robert Eggers (2015 Sundance award-winner “The Witch”) and Gaspar Noe (Cannes competition player “Love”). The company is also firing up movies from a new generation of Brazilian directors.

http://variety.com/2016/film/global/brazil-production-company-rt-features-1201701634/