Rodrigo Teixeira

Rodrigo Teixeira (1976, Brazil) is a film producer and founder of RT Features, a production company specialising in the development, financing and production of independent cinema. He began his career in the 1990s, initially acquiring literary rights, and produced his first feature film, Drained (2007), directed by Heitor Dhalia. His international breakthrough came with Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha (2012), followed by films including Robert Eggers’s The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), and Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name (2017), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. His credits also include Karim Aïnouz’s Invisible Life (2019), selected as Brazil’s submission for the Academy Awards, and Olivier Assayas’s Wasp Network (2019). In 2024, he produced Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here, further consolidating his position as a leading figure in international independent film production. In this edition of LEFFEST, there are four films produced by Rodrigo Teixeira: Paper Tiger, Furies, La perra, and Isabel.