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Marjorie Estiano and Any Gabrielly Star in 'Habeas Corpus' (Working Title), Netflix Brazil's First Courtroom Drama
São Paulo, December 2 - Today, Netflix announced that Marjorie Estiano and Any Gabrielly will star in Habeas Corpus (working title), an upcoming drama series with a gripping legal plot inspired by a real case that was reviewed after a conviction. The ensemble also features Danton Mello, Marisa Orth, Naruna Costa, Natália Lage, and Vladimir Brichta.
Inspired by the work of the Innocence Project Brasil, a national organization dedicated to overturning wrongful convictions, the series follows a law professor (Marjorie Estiano) who leads a post-conviction review group in an effort to prove the innocence of a young man unjustly convicted. What she doesn't know is that her brightest student (Any Gabrielly) is seeking justice for a tragic wrongdoing.
Directed by Luiz Villaça, who co-created the series alongside Leonardo Moreira and Donna Oliveira, Habeas Corpus (working title) is produced by Café Royal, with Adriana Tavares as executive producer. Episodes directed by Luiz Villaça and Flávia Lacerda. The script was written by Leonardo Moreira, Donna Oliveira, Jeferson Tenório, Silvia Gomez, and Victoria Negreiros, with assistance from Luiza Aron. The cast also includes Felipe Ricca, Hypólito, Luiza Gabus Mendes, Nicolas Lee, Paula Cohen, Pedro Roza, and Renata Gaspar, among others.
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About Café Royal
Café Royal is an entertainment and advertising production company of movies, documentaries, series, and theater productions, recognized for its creative, collaborative approach and its commitment to social impact. Led by Adriana Tavares, Luiz Villaça, Julio Hey and Moa Ramalho, the company is completing the documentary Mulheres Crônicas with Tati Bernardi for Aquarius, and beginning production for the feature film A Última Chance focused on the basketball stars Paula and Hortência. In theaters, they released 45 do Segundo Tempo, directed by Luiz Villaça and starring Tony Ramos. They also produced Angicos, directed by Felipe Hirsch, a feature film about the life of Paulo Freire. In the realm of documentaries, Café Royal produced the Ahimsa brothers' From Love No One Escapes and Samadhi Road, as well as Felipe Hirsch's Homeland Is the Place Where We Are Loved, in collaboration with Sesc and the Museum of the Portuguese Language, as well as Radical Love, directed by Julio Hey and produced for Aquarius, about the life and legacy of Satish Kumar. The production company is also wrapping up a documentary on the play Eu de Você, starring Denise Fraga. For television, they produced Justiça por Elas for GNT and, on the stage, they co-produced the plays Eu de Você with Denise Fraga, and What We Only Know Together with Denise Fraga and Tony Ramos.
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