One of Coelho Voador’s most groundbreaking initiatives is the Tailor Shop, a lab that began in 2010 and has been reinventing and perfecting itself ever since. According to the dictionary, a “Tailor Shop” is the place where something can be created artisanally and customized without conforming to standards. In the case of Coelho Voador’s Tailor Shop, this applies to the development of custom-made narratives according to the creativity, knowledge and interest of the tailor himself – that is, the screenwriter –, as well as the contribution of other screenwriters in a fruitful, collaborative process.
Tailor Shop
Tailor Shop
Troughout dozens of meetings, we analyze, debate and devise new paths and possibilities for narratives through talks and brainstorming sessions, in a truly colective script doctoring method. As time goes by, well-defined and structured stories have emerged, not to mention the various contacts originated by this initiative as we establish new partnerships and new projects through the Tailor Shop.
The project has been twice awarded the Cultural Support Fund of Rio Grande do Sul. Its latest edition was 2015’s Traveling Tailor Shop, which took place in seven cities of Rio Grande do Sul: http://coelhovoador.com.br/alfaiataria/
Since its inception, six editions of the Tailor Shop have been held with distinct profiles and methodologies, contributing to the development of over 50 feature films and television series. Of note among them are the series “The Blessing” and “ClimaXXX”, finalists of the NETLAB Competition, developed during 2011’s Double Series Tailor Shop; “Road to Guizos”, a feature film developed during the first of Coelho Voador’s Tailor Shops in 2010 and financed by FSA’s Prodav 4; “What Art Occupies the Dead”, a feature film developed during 2012’s Youth Tailor Shop, perfected during 2013’s Tailor Shop B and financed by the Rio Grande do Sul Secretariat of Culture’s FSA in 2015; and the feature films “Back to ’97” and “After the Ash”, both state-funded and currently in production, developed during Tailor Shop B in 2012 and 2013.
