Rogerio Soares Email & Phone Number

Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

I am currently working in Ghana as part of the Canadian Volunteer Cooperation Program. I am based in Accra and collaborating with WILDAF (Women in Law and Development in Africa), an organization with over 250 members, as well as YEFL, a youth organization in Northern Ghana. Our main focus is on developing approaches to Communication for Development, which includes utilizing social media, creating documentaries, building social media capacity for youth, and designing capacity-building courses and communication strategies to raise awareness in the general media, with a specific focus on Ending Poverty, Fighting Inequality, Humanitarian Response, Long-Term Development, Advocacy and Campaigning, Youth, Women's rights.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As part of the Filmblanc Inc. team, we collaborated to create and design an outreach strategy and develop an educational/media plan to relaunch the documentary MILK. The goal was to engage groups and communities internationally in discussions about issues related to infant feeding, emergency feeding, and the rights of mothers and babies.This project was approved and funded by the Tellus Fund Canada. The results for the 2023-24 outreach initiative were impressive:- Over 34 events held across Canada, Turkey, and Guatemala- More than 2000 participants- Support from partners and over 46 organizations- Reached over 1,000,000 people on social mediaPartners included UNICEF Guatemala, La Leche League Turkey, and SafelyFed Canada, among others.

Montreal, Canada Area

2022 - MU - Film research as a filmmaker in residence in Japan sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts. 2020-present - Tropical Utopia - Scriptwritter and director - Documentary developed with the support from CALQ Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec. Link: https://vimeo.com/4441022132013 and 2019 - In 2013, Worked as a Production Supervisor for Filmblanc (www.filmblanc.com) on a documentary called "Milk" about infant feeding and the rights of mothers and babies, shot in 9 countries and supported by the CBC: More recently, in 2019 worked as Production Supervisor in Brazil, for "Connecting the Dots", a Filmblanc's documentary SHOT FOR TV5-UNIS, about the world's current youth mental health.2012- Created and coordinated a Transmedia training program for TeleSUR, the public broadcaster in Venezuela. 2014: Director: Ticket to Paradise for Al Jazeera International, released in 2014, about the Haitian immigration to Brazil.2012 and 2013- International jury for the Canadian Media Fund (CMF) Éxperimental streaming, helping to select multi-platform projects, such as games, web docs, and communication projects to production.2014/2015/2016: Developed 36 investigative reports for TeleSUR (Venezuela) shot in Brazil, for the series Crónicas, investigative shorts about the inhabitants of the city of São Paulo, set under a social, cultural, and political backdrop.

Montreal And The Amazon (Brazil)

SYNOPSIS: The people who live along Brazil’s Xingu River are facing man-made Armageddon. The massive Belo Monte Dam, one of the world’s most contested infrastructure projects, has caused untold ecological and social devastation throughout the entire region, displacing more than 40,000 local residents. Director Rogerio Soares travels into this mythic and brutalized world to encounter some of its most vulnerable and inspiring inhabitants. Blending informed analysis with Baroque aesthetics and Latin American magic realism, he crafts an arresting and poetic river movie, offering a rare and deeply empathetic look into the lives of people caught in the ruinous path of “disaster development.” River Silence has toured 20 international film festivals and won 5 awards.

Canada- Brazil

Dec 2014- Director-writer-producer of "Mother of the Amazon", a documentary sponsored by Al Jazeera International about the struggle of a woman to protect her community from the construction of a dam in northern Brazil: Edizangela, part activist, part therapist and full-time community counsellor is leading the fight to end the rising tide of increased family violence and self-destruction and gain a voice for those being dislocated.By following Edizangela as she navigates these fragile family ties, this story also looks at her relationship to the outside world and explores the poetic balance between strengths and weaknesses, tension and love, kindness and suffering. Through her endeavors we see a strong woman whose work and life can be transformational and inspiring to those around her.

Sao Paulo- Brazil

Developer of Transmídia, WebDocs, Education, Documentaries strategies. Working closely with Latin American public broadcasters developing strategies and capacity building in formats. Co-creator of Colours of Football, an international co-production with 22 countries (Japan, Palestine, Iran, Mexico, Argentina, etc), a co-production effort between Red TAL and GLOMEX -Global Media Exchange.Actively participated in pitchings in Brazil and Uruguay and co-production meetings in Latin America.

Sao Paulo And Latin America

I was part of an international team that created a new non-commercial Latin American TV and IPTV content provider. Initially, it was designed as a Latin American TV satellite channel, and I participated in the design and creation of the entire platform. Later, the project evolved into a web platform. In my role as Director of Programming, I formulated the entire programming strategy.My responsibilities included researching TV programs in commercial and public TV channels across Latin America, prospecting, selecting, and acquiring over 3,000 hours of high-quality television programs produced in 21 countries through donations and partnerships for broadcast. Additionally, I established TAL’s Program Dept for Internet and television, developed manuals, and put in place procedures, methodologies, and criteria. I also trained the programming team and collaborated with them to maintain a consistent flow of creative processes in programming and production.I was also part of the commissioning editing team, where I defined in-house production through pitching and invitation, managed special projects such as campaigns, short visual pieces, and vignettes. I supervised the internet site and TV graphics and worked on promoting the project internationally by attending meetings and conferences to advertise the network, which now has over 160 TV members and institutions.

As the director of programming, I oversaw the broadcast and acquisitions of content for TV ESCOLA, a TV network owned by the Ministry of Education of Brazil. The network reached an average of 40 million viewers through terrestrial, cable, and satellite platforms. My responsibilities included conceptualizing the entire programming, attending international TV markets acquiring educational and cultural TV programs (fiction, non-fiction, animation, etc) for a 24-hour schedule. I gave support to the review process of publications and other communication material produced by TV Escola, provided guidance on the design and production and coordinated the publishing of pedagogical content for the TV ESCOLA MAGAZINE with a distribution of 900 thousand issues bimonthly. My work entitled me to oversee the production of over 4,000 hours of TV programs, and be a part of the commission editing team planning the yearly productions. Additionally, I promoted the channel at regional and international events, workshops, and festivals, sharing insights on its successful experience. I was also responsible for managing all contracts, and clearances, overseeing translation, subtitling, and final versions of programs in Portuguese.

Rondonia (Amazon) Brazil

I have experience as a specialist in media communications and environmental education through my involvement in UNDP's PROJECT BRA 94000 PLANAFLLORO. During this project, I developed an outreach program for UNDP's environmental education initiative in the Amazon region of Rondônia. This involved producing videos, writing newspaper articles, and creating a weekly radio program. I collaborated with approximately 80 citizen journalists who volunteered to generate news from various locations in the Amazon. As a result of the success of this program, I was invited by the Brazilian Federal Government to lead the Amazon National Radio (Radio Nacional da Amazonia), a public radio broadcast in Brazil. During my 6-month tenure, I revamped its programming and worked with a team of 29 journalists and producers to create content focusing on the Amazon region. The new programs covered topics such as education, the environment, ethnicity, human rights, gender, legal education, reproductive rights, and youth.

Ba (Hons), Film And Video, Ba Fim And Video - 1St Degree Honours

Ma Global Media, Mobile-Iptv-Globalization, Merit

Aec, Multimedia