Poney Films emerges from cinema understood as a space of presence, memory, and survival. The company develops queer auteur works grounded in lived experience and in attentive listening to bodies, trajectories, and affections that official history tends to erase.
Founded by Brazilian filmmaker, producer, and curator Ricky Mastro, Poney Films builds its projects from an ethics of the gaze attentive to gesture, to time, and to the relationship between image and body. This approach rests on a solid formation in cinema, the arts, and audiovisual research, and unfolds both in the making of the films and in the way they circulate.

The catalogue brings together ten short films and one feature that have travelled internationally to more than two hundred festivals. These films do not seek to explain the world. They remain within it, staying close to desire, to affection, and to the fragility of human bonds.

Alongside filmmaking, Poney Films works in production and curation as complementary gestures. It created Mostra Queer Brasil, an initiative dedicated to circulating Brazilian queer cinema abroad. Conceived as both a political gesture and an act of memory, the showcase has been presented at festivals and cultural institutions internationally.

The company’s identity is shaped by its founder’s experience within the Brazilian queer cultural scene of the 2000s, in dialogue with nightlife, the body, and the collective. That relationship remains the sensitive core of the projects developed today.

Currently, Poney Films is developing the features Boy Lixo, Tarzan, and Giulia, as well as the series Mundinho. In dialogue with his cinema, its founder is writing Paulicéia Queer, a literary work in which São Paulo nightlife writes itself as body, memory, and permanence.

At Poney Films, creation does not look for exemplary characters, but for real presences. A cinema that understands image and word as ethical gestures and as forms of care.