Ana is a scriptwriter who has been trying to get a development deal for her own series. She finally gets a chance when her head is mysteriously hit by a falling object just in front of the headquarters of Phoenix, a global streaming company. In the midst of blood and pain, she signs the contract. Years later, she is a successful showrunner heading for the Tropical Creative Market, set on an island paradise off the coast of Brazil. There, she meets Tainá, a scriptwriter who year after year tries to sell a project of her own, and Silvia, a beautiful young woman full of hope. In the days to follow, the euphoric mood will be replaced by conflicting feelings and tensions will escalate. The island becomes a shifting and unreliable space - haunted by spiders, vampires, and dreams - and the lives of these 3 characters will drastically change. Tainá will fail to set up fruitful meetings and gradually gets consumed by anxiety. Silvia, however, turns into the center of attention. She flirts with Christian, the charming CEO of Phoenix, but makes the mistake of falling in love with him, signs a contract without reading it, and becomes easy prey. Meanwhile, Ana is pressured to make radical changes to her project - and she will have to commit murder to avoid being fired from her own show.
An abusive contract that I signed under pressure - and bitterly regretted later - was the starting point for Hot Blood, a tragicomedy with supernatural and musical elements. In an unregulated industry where authors have to give up the totality of the rights to their ideas, I have witnessed friends fired from their own shows, others with their scripts forever on hold by third parties, and many exhausted and barely sleeping in order to pay the bills. To the uncertainties of our industry, we can add the legal precariousness of Latin America, the banalisation of the screenwriting profession, streaming companies allied with tech to produce “content and catalogue” over films and series, and the global uberization of services. Each of the characters I have written carries a side of me and will sing their sorrows and joys in an alternate and bizarre universe. Above all, Hot Blood is about dreams, about people who are passionate for writing for the screen, and a tribute to our most precious belonging – our ideas.
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