Luiz Bolognesi Wrote and Directed the short movie Pedro e o Senhor (Peter and the Lord) in 1995. He wrote and co-directed with Laís Bodanzky, the award-winning documentary Cine Mambembe, o Cinema Descobre o Brasil (Cine Mambembe, The Cinema Discovers Brazil) in 1999. In that same year, he wrote the series of documentaries As Guerras do Brasil (Brazil's Wars) for TV Cultura. The script for Bicho de Sete Cabeças (Brainstorm) is his premier in the long movies. The Playwright's Testimony Laís Bodanzky began filming the sixth version of the script for Bicho de Sete Cabeças (Brainstorm) in February, 2000. The first version of the film was written in June 1997, during the travels of the Cine Mambembe. In this occasion, Laís and I traveled around Brazil's countryside showing short movies in squares and schools. This little odyssey, not only gave birth to the Cine Mambembe, The Movies Discover Brazil documentary, also caused the first script for the Bicho (Animal) to come out totally focused to this group of people. When I reread the sequences that I had written in the laptop that traveled along with the projector and the portable screen, I wondered what that type of people whom I had just finished showing a movie would want. Would they believe this sequence? Would they be interested in knowing what would happen in the next sequence? Was the sequence predictable? The sessions in the public squares made me learn how to write a script. I wrote it with total respect for the audience's feelings, and in fear of losing their interest. I learned that the slightest loss of attention could be mortal and irreversible. Once we finished traveling with the Cine Mambembe, the script was criticized and commented on by Laís and a few collaborators and rewritten five times in two years. When the last version was ready, a short time before filming began, a group of teenagers read the script. Their comments gave the last blow to the movie. They dropped a few sequences, because they were false and suggested other sequences, that ended up being filmed. The main weapon to write a script, I'd say, are the ears. Luiz Bolognesi, playwright for Bicho de Sete Cabeças (Brainstorm)