Founded in 2010 by documentary filmmaker, journalist and photographer Rafael Duarte, Bambalaio is an audiovisual production company specializing in environmental projects, mountain films and transmedia storytelling. Our documentaries have won 25 national and international awards at more than 120 festivals around the world, including best film twice at each of Brazil's main mountain film festivals: Rio Mountain Festival, Rocky Spirit and Freeman Film Festival.

Bambalaio has produced more than 200 videos for clients, ten documentaries, three web series and ten books. Our projects have been distributed in impact campaigns and licensed in Brazil and abroad on platforms such as GloboPlay, Amazon Prime, ARTE, Canal Off and TV Brasil.

Highlights include the award-winning “RIO de olhares únicos”, “Além dos sonhos” and “Whiteout”, and short docs for Piauí magazine supervised by João Moreira Salles and Renato Terra. As a strategic content agency, Bambalaio works with Conservation International Brazil, WWF, Google, SOS Mata Atlântica, TIME BRASIL, COPPEAD-UFRJ and more.