Producer declares expenditure of R$75 million on film about Bolsonaro; see different values involving the long
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Karina Ferreira da Gama, owner of the company Go UP Entertainment, responsible for the film 'Dark Horse' - about the life of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
Karina Ferreira da Gama, owner of the company Go UP Entertainment, responsible for the film 'Dark Horse' - about the life of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
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The production company Go UP Entertainment, responsible for the film "Dark Horse", about the life of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), declared that the feature film cost at least R$75.1 million, according to a document attached to the Civil Police investigation investigating businesswoman Karina Ferreira da Gama, owner of the company.
Karina is the target of an investigation that investigates the R$108 million contract for the installation of Wi-Fi points on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo, in a contract signed with the NGO Instituto conhecimento Brasil (ICB), which also belongs to the businesswoman and is located at the same address as the producer of the Bolsonaro film.
Banker Daniel Vorcaro helped finance the film, and negotiations involved direct contacts with the former president's eldest son, senator and pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), who asked for money and pressed for payments (read more below).
The São Paulo Police and the Public Ministry want to know whether public resources from the municipal contract were used in the production of the film about Bolsonaro.
According to the document attached to the inquiry, R$54 million of this declared amount was spent abroad and R$20.9 million in Brazil. In dollars, the film cost US$13.39 million, the document points out, despite having been filmed entirely in Brazil.
Expenses declared by the production company Go UP Entertainment, responsible for the film ‘Dark Horse’, about the life of Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
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The amounts are part of a report produced at the request of Karina Gama's defense lawyers and does not present receipts or invoices for the expenses.
One of the reasons for the investigation against the owner of the NGO ICB is the presentation of invoices with no fiscal value in the reporting made to the City of São Paulo.
Before Dark Horse, Go UP Entertainment had never made any films in Brazil. The NGO Instituto Saber Brasil had also never installed any Wi-Fi points on the outskirts of São Paulo before taking on the contract with the administration of Mayor Ricardo Nunes (MDB) – an ally of the Bolsonaro family – in June 2024.
The report was contracted by lawyers from Hasson Sayeg, Novaes e Advogados, who are responsible for Karina's defense. They hired the Institute of Investigative Expertise (IPI) to write the document. The expert who signed the document, Anísio Costa Castelo Branco, says he prepared the document using contracts, financial spreadsheets and bank statements from the NGO.
The report does not reproduce any of these documents as a way of proving the numbers presented. The document also does not clarify the origin of the R$20.9 million spent in Brazil by Go Up on the film.
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The private expert hired by the defense also stated that “he did not identify cash inflows originating from public resources, government transfers or financing”.
In May, Karina Ferreira da Gama stated in an exclusive interview with Globonews and TV Globo that the film's already realized budget is around US$13 million. 90% of the amount, according to her, was paid for by the former owner of Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro.
The banker is in prison for having generated a R$47 billion loss to the Credit Guarantee Fund (FGC).
According to Karina, the film is in the post-production phase, with the inclusion of special effects and sound, and still needs resources, but nothing substantial.
Expenses declared by the production company Go UP Entertainment, responsible for the film ‘Dark Horse’, about the life of Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Reproduction
Karina stated that, after Daniel Vorcaro's arrest, everyone who was in charge of the film had to look for new investors to make the project viable. According to the owner of the production company, Vorcaro acted as a funding intermediary for the film, not as an investor.
"When he [Vorcaro] was arrested, we were already filming. I had a payroll to pay, I already had professionals to pay. And none of them felt the impact because everyone rolled up their sleeves. 'Guys, let's see where we can help, who can support'. Our life every day was talking to people in the private sector who could support our project."
The figures surrounding the film Dark Horse
Daniel Vorcaro and Flávio Bolsonaro.
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Banker Daniel Vorcaro even paid R$61 million to the film's producers, via a fund in the United States.
According to the website "The Intercept Brasil", Flávio Bolsonaro would have negotiated the transfer of US$24 million, around R$134 million at the time, to finance the production about Jair Bolsonaro.
R$75.1 million - the amount the producer says it spent;
R$61 million - amounts that Daniel Vorcaro would have allocated to the film via funds in the USA;
R$134 million - the amount that Flávio Bolsonaro would have negotiated before Vorcaro was arrested;
R$ 108 million - value of the contract between Karina da Gama's NGO and the City of SP for the installation of Wi-Fi in the capital of São Paulo. Contract is investigated by the MP and Civil Police.
What is the situation with the free Wi-Fi service on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo?
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