Matheus Bazzo

Matheus Bazzo Malgarise (born in Passo Fundo on October 29, 1990) is a Brazilian designer, photographer, producer, art director and entrepreneur. Bazzo is the producer of the movie O Jardim das Aflições [The Garden of Afflictions], which depicts the work, thoughts and daily life of Brazilian philosopher and writer Olavo de Carvalho (1947–2022). He is also the founder of Lumine, a Catholic streaming platform, as well as of Minha Biblioteca Católica [My Catholic Library], a religious book subscription club.
== Career ==
Born in the city of Passo Fundo, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Bazzo resided only for a short time in his own native city and moved to São Leopoldo with his family, to the region of Vale dos Sinos. At 16 he started experimenting with analog photography, having launched a zine called Câmera Diynamite., which published pictures shot by artists from around the world. In the aftermath, he began his undergraduate studies in Visual Arts at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. At the time he worked as a photographer and also as a designer, acting in companies of the sector and collaborating with press vehicles such as Vice. 
In the year of 2011 Bazzo was introduced to the work of Olavo de Carvalho, and from the philosopher’s ideas he conceptualized the movie O Jardim das Aflições, in order to present the life and daily routine of that Brazilian thinker. Matheus Bazzo later joined with director Josias Téofilo, who had a similar project in mind. The partnership began when they jointly started developing this project. 
Between 2015 and 2016, Matheus Bazzo and Josias Teófilo fundraised for the documentary in what was the biggest crowdfunding in Brazil’s history — a fundraising valued at R$ 350.000,00 among 2.800 individual investors. The shooting took place in the year of 2015, in the United States, in Richmond, Virginia. The film premiere was held on May 31, 2017, and had a great repercussion in mainstream media primarily due to differences between Olavo’s supporters and opponents. That same year, O Jardim das Aflições won the award for best picture and film editing in the 21st Cine-PE Festival. 
During 2017, Bazzo undertakes a personal project, Minha Biblioteca Católica, a book subscription club for Catholic readers. In the very first month of this initiative, the demand was so big that the stocks were quickly exhausted and the club’s website needed to be shut down for two days. MBC currently has over 30.000 subscribers and already printed more than two million books, including great religious classics such as The Story of a Soul, by Thérèse of Lisieux, Theology of the Body, by St. John Paul II, as well as The Interior Castle, by St. Teresa of Ávila. 
In the year of 2019, Matheus founds Lumine, a streaming platform with content designed for the Catholic audiences. That service gathers classic films of Charles Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock, among others, and also movies and series with religious content, including original productions made by Lumine itself. Its first production was Filhos de Cister [Sons of Cîteaux], a three-episode series that depicts the life of Cistercian monks inhabiting the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul. 
In just three years Lumine became the biggest Catholic streaming platform in Latin America. In 2021 Lumine released the movie Apóstolo do Brasil: a missão de São José de Anchieta Brazil’s Apostle: the mission of St. José of Anchieta], a docudrama based on the book Anchieta, by Joaquim Thomaz Paiva. And in 2022 this streaming platform launches Um santo entre nós [A saint among us], depicting St. Josemaria Escrivá’s visit to Brazil in 1974, and the documentary A vida interior – resgatando uma vida com sentido [The inner life – recovering a meaningful life], a three-episode series featuring Father Paulo Ricardo
== Personal life ==
Matheus converted to Catholicism in 2013. He is married with screenwriter and director Julia Sondermann since 2019 – they had two sons together.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Language 	Role
2017	The Garden of Afflictions 	Portuguese and English	Producer and coeditor
2018	The Sons of Cîteaux 	Portuguese 	Producer
2020	The Life of Sara 	Portuguese 	Producer
2021	Brazil’s Apostle: the mission of St. José of Anchieta	Portuguese 	Executive producer
2022	The Inner Life 	Portuguese 	Executive producer
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