Investor Presentaiton
STAFF
President
Ana Lucia Villela
Vice-Presidents
Alfredo Villela Filho
Marcos Nisti
CEO
Marcos Nisti
Directors
Carolina Pasquali
Flavia Doria
Isabella Henriques
Lilian Okada
Fiscal Advisors
Eduardo Marchetti Rios, Henri Penchas and
Richard Lyon Thorp Bilton
Insipirational Advisors
Project Ground of Play
Adriana Friedmann, Ana Claudia Arruda Leite,
Ana Lucia Villela, Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo,
Gandhy Piorsky, Luiza Lameirão, Marcos Ferreira
Santos, Roberta Alves, Sandra Eckschmidt, Soraia
Chung Saura, Ute Craemmer
ALANA 2014
LETTER
FROM THE
EDITOR
Consultant
Antônio Carlos Carneiro
Editor
Carolina Pasquali
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Accountant
Daniel Vieira da Costa
Advisory Board
Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo (Frei Betto), Claudia
Leme Ferreira Davis, Jordana Berg, Maria Lúcia
Zoega de Souza e Paulo Velasco
Advisory Board
Project Children and Consumerism
Ana Olmos, Clóvis de Barros Filho, Edgard Rebouças,
Flávio Paiva, Inês Vitorino Sampaio, João Lopes
Guimarães Junior, José Eduardo Romão, Ladislau
Dowbor, Marcelo Sodré, Nádia Rebouças, Pedrinho
Guareschi, Rachel Biderman, Solange Jobim e Souza,
Vidal Serrano Júnior and Zico Góes
Advisory Board
Project Absolute Priority
Antônio Carlos Malheiros, Ilan Brenman, Irene
Rizzini, José Martins Filho, Laila Shukair, Munir
Cury, Regina de Assis, Renata Meirelles, Tânia da
Silva Pereira and Severino Antônio
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Art Editor
Luiza Esteves
Reporting
Julia Contier
Laura Leal
Revisions
Rosana Tanus
Graphic Design
Papanapa
Illustrations
Silvia Amstalden
I write this letter as I return from SXSW
(South by SouthWest), a festival of mu-
sic, cinema and technology that happens
every year in Austin, in the United States.
The last talk I saw was given by Astro
Teller, the man responsible for Google X.
Essentially, Google X is the division of
Google that has as its mission to invent
what nobody else is doing yet. Its profes-
sionals create innovations that change the
world. It is from there, for example, that
the self-driving car will come.
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learning from defeats, having lots of fun
along the way, and savoring each victory as
if it was the final of the World Cup.
I think that is, in a way, the spirit we
have here at Alana, and that I and the bril-
liant communications team that helps me
try to express in this report. We have felt
this movement grow: more and more peo-
ple transform, sense that there is another
way, connect and begin to collaborate in
order for this change to happen. Alana it-
self grew in 2014. I took part in a meeting
recently and realized that it has already
become difficult to explain Alana and all
its projects in just one hour. We widened
our scope, multiplied the connections be-
tween initiatives, elevated exponentially
the possibilities for action.
In this report that you have in your
hands (or are reading on the internet), we
tried to share with people a little bit of
what 2014 was like for us. The idea was
to write it in a light, fun way so it could
be read with the same pleasure with which
we read a good magazine. We took care
so that every line of text, every illustration
and every photo has its value. Without any
flourishes in the form but with every desire
to offer you who follow our work a pleas-
ant read and a dazzling visual experience.
Thousands of people gathered to
see Teller speak. In the largest space for
talks at the festival which was packed -
Teller talked about how much he learns
when something goes wrong. And how it
is more fun to be, say, the Costa Rica team
at the World Cup than it is to be Brazil,
just to bring an analogy he used to Brazil-
ian reality. This is because Brazil has the
obligation of winning, and a 7 x 1 score
is something that marks and will mark
us forever. But Costa Rica... Well, Costa the cover and illustrations by Silvia Am-
Rica came to have fun. Defeat is expected, stalden, created especially for this publica-
but victory... Ah, victory has a very special tion. She created a bank of shapes, colors
taste. Astro Teller said he always wants to and textures (which you can see on the
behave in life like the Costa Rican team: back cover) that served as the basis for all
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This experience begins already with
the illustrations that came after. This beau-
tiful work inspired us so much that we de-
cided to print two covers: one for
you to
keep with its contents, the other to peel,
glue and play as an illustrator too. The
possibilities are infinite!
We are still getting used to Alana's new
size. This does not mean, of course, that
we have stopped. The purpose of this trip
to SXSW was to launch a new platform
there, one that believes in cinema as a tool
for social transformation (see more details
on page 56). We have not and will not stop.
But we certainly continue with the same
levity that allows us to make mistakes. And
to laugh along the way. May both serve as
inspiration for us all in 2015.
Best regards,
Carolina Pasquali
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