Globo to Produce Film Created by and Starring Pop Icon Anitta (EXCLUSIVE)

Lensing on the romance drama, an original idea from Anitta, begins June 1 at Estúdios Globo in Rio de Janeiro

By Marcelo Cajueiro

Marcelo Cajueiro

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Megastar Annita will play the lead role of a still unnamed feature film that will be lensed beginning June 1 at giant media group Globo’s Estúdios Globo in Rio, Amauri Soares, executive director of Estúdios Globo and TV Globo told Variety.

Soares will announce the production today during the Rio2Cpanel Globo: So Much Brazil to Tell.

Anitta herself conceived the original idea of the romance drama, which will be theatrically released. In it Nina (Anitta) is a young woman who, after her grandmother’s death, leaves Rio for a small town in southern Brazil in search of a fresh start. There, she meets Pedro (Kelner Macedo) and goes through experiences that transform her perspective on love, friendship and the future.

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