{"id":5943,"date":"2026-08-15T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:05:44","slug":"a-chocolate-christmas-a-brazilian-holiday-romantic-drama-set-to-shoot-in-gramado-and-new-york-from-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5943","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Chocolate Christmas,\u2019 a Brazilian Holiday Romantic Drama, Set to Shoot in Gramado and New York From December"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tGRAMADO, Brazil \u2014 Vet Brazilian helmer-producer Paulo Nascimento will lense \u201cA Chocolate Christmas,\u201d a Portuguese-language holiday-themed feature film in the mountain resort of Gramado, in southern Brazil, and New York City, he told <em>Variety<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5941\">Ur\u0161a Menart Recalls Finding Inspiration on Influencers\u2019 Fake Tragic Life Stories for Intimate Dramedy \u2018Everything That\u2019s Wrong With You\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe film will shoot over December and January. Nascimento is set announce the film project t his panel on Sunday at the Gramado Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cA Chocolate Christmas\u201d weighs in as a romantic drama set mainly during Natal Luz de Gramado, recognized by Guinness as the world\u2019s longest Christmas festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe pic is produced by Nascimento\u2019s Accorde Filmes and H2O Films, with co-production from NYC-based indie production company Rose Pictures. H2O, one of the leading independent distributors in Brazil, is to open the pic in local theaters over the 2027 Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNascimento said he will shoot the feature during one week in NYC in December 2026 and over four weeks in Gramado in January 2027, including exteriors set in Natal Luz de Gramado. The festivity includes Christmas parades with floats, performers and characters, an open-air show staged over water with music, fireworks and special effects, concerts with the Gramado Symphony Orchestra and an immersive performance combining technology, visual effects and illuminated costumes.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cFrom a producer\u2019s perspective, Natal Luz has a production value that not even a major Netflix production could provide. We will have access to all of the event\u2019s activities and incorporate them into the film. In other words, we will have the scale of a major production without the corresponding costs,\u201d Nascimento told <em>Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5939\">\u2018VisionQuest\u2019 Trailer: Paul Bettany and James Spader Return as Vision and Ultron in \u2018WandaVision\u2019 Trilogy Finale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe story follows Linda, a 17-year-old teenager who, after having her heart broken by her boyfriend, leaves her family in Gramado to study in the U.S. 10 years later, now recognized in the U.S. as a talented chocolatier and preparing to open her first chocolate shop in Manhattan, she is forced to return to Brazil after her father suffers a heart attack. Back in her hometown and involved once again with her family\u2019s chocolate business, Linda reunites with her former boyfriend and, amid the traditions of Christmas in Gramado, rediscovers the possibility of opening her heart to love.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNascimento said he has directed 17 films in his career, including political drama \u201cIn Your Name,\u201d winner of four Kikito prizes at the Gramado Fest 2009, and \u201cWestend of the World,\u201d a co-production with Argentina starring Cesar Troncoso as a veteran of the Falklands War.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHis most recent features are \u201c13 Souls,\u201d a supernatural possession horror movie distributed online in the U.K. in May via Seven Tales and Trinity Content Partners, and the still unreleased \u201cThe Taxidermist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI have always made political dramas, and now I\u2019m making genre films: a horror film, a melodrama and a Christmas movie. Cinema has shifted toward niche films,\u201d Nascimento observed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5937\">\u2018Avengers: Doomsday\u2019 Trailer: Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s Doctor Doom Faces Off Against Mister Fantastic, X-Men and Avengers With Army of Sentinels<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nascimento is set to capture the spectacular Natal Luz de Gramado, recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest holiday festival on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4618,4619,3606,4620,4621],"class_list":["post-5943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-accorde-filmes","tag-cesar-troncoso","tag-gramado-film-festival","tag-h2o-films","tag-paulo-nascimento"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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