Based on Brazilian author Milton Hatoum’s most recent novel, Orphans of Eldorado is a story of love and obsession and of a man who goes insane in the Amazon. Back in his childhood town, Arminto falls in love with a mysterious woman, who everyone says wants to live in an underwater city. In the search for this unattainable love, he loses his family inheritance and his reason, as he approaches the mythical universe of the Amazon – turning his own life into a fable and a tragedy.
Guilherme Coelho
Born in Rio in 1979, he graduated in economics from Stanford, where he studied journalism, documentary and drama. In 2002, he founded the company Matizar Filmes. He directed documentaries Fala Tu, Lives of Rhyme (2004), best doc and director at the Rio Film Festival; Fernando Lemos, Trough the Image (2005); PQD Brazilian Paratroopers (2007); and A Sunday with Frederico Morais (2011). In 2010 he led the transmedia project Por que a gente é assim?.
