Consulting

Script, animatic and cut reviews by the editor of Central Station

Felipe Lacerda has been editing and directing for three decades. He co-directed and edited Bus 174 and edited The Edge of Democracy. Today he reads other directors' material and tells them, in writing and in a conversation, what the film can hold and where the cut can go.

Tell us about your project See the packages

Film Editors Branch Executive Committee, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2026 to 2027
Films awarded the BAFTA, Golden Bear, Golden Globe, Emmy and Peabody

For projects in development

Three packages for your film

All of them start with a non-disclosure agreement, before any file leaves your edit suite.

Dossier

Delivered within 5 business days

R$ 797

Felipe runs ISAI's analyses on your material, reads the results and adds what the project calls for. You get everything in one PDF with an index.

Up to 10 hours of material: interviews or a cut
1 month of the Montador plan included

I want the Dossier

Reading

Recommended

Dossier and two conversations

R$ 2,997

Everything in the Dossier, plus two one-hour conversations with Felipe: the first after delivery, the second a week later.

1 month of the Estúdio plan included

I want the Reading

Edit Suite

Reading and four weeks of editing

R$ 5,897

Everything in the Reading, and Felipe follows the edit for four weeks, in one 90-minute session a week.

1 month of the Estúdio plan included

I want the Edit Suite

More than 10 hours of material, or more weeks of Edit Suite? We agree on the price in a quick conversation.

Finished cut
Analysis of a cut already assembled, priced case by case.Ask for a cut analysis
Labs, festivals and residencies
Project mentoring, masterclasses and talks, in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French. By invitation.Send an invitation

Beyond the platform

What Felipe does outside the platform

The subscription covers interviews. In consulting, Felipe also reads the script and the cut, with tools he has not opened to the public yet.

Central Station, script and film

From the script came a reading against nine screenwriting manuals, with the first-act turning points marked on a ruler of the film.

From the finished film came a dossier of 54 charts, among them the comparison between script and cut, sequence by sequence.

Central Station is fiction. The consulting covers fiction and documentary.

Where he has stepped in

Consulting on other people's films

Consulting clients are named only when the credit is public.

Pelé and Neymar: The Perfect Chaos
Netflix documentaries. Editing consultant.
Three-episode documentary series, Brazil
A screening with the producers and a five-hour session going through the cut with the director and the editor.
Animation, Portugal
Review of the animatic and the script, with a detailed analysis and proposed changes.
Portuguese-Brazilian animation
Working days and conversations across several versions.

Who leads it

Felipe Lacerda

Editor, director and narrative consultant. Rio de Janeiro.

Edited Central Station and The Edge of Democracy. Co-directed and edited Bus 174.
Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and of the Film Editors Branch Executive Committee, 2026 to 2027 term.
Films he edited or co-directed won the BAFTA, the Golden Bear, the Golden Globe, the Emmy and the Peabody, and were nominated for the Oscar.
Best Editing awards from the Brazilian Cinematography Association and the Guarani Award.

Very few people in the industry are able to conduct the storytelling the way Felipe does.

José PadilhaFilm Director

I have great admiration for his ability to think a movie, and to re-imagine it from the footage.

Walter SallesDirector of "Central Station" and "The Motorcycle Diaries"

For the first time in years, I felt like I was learning something in an edit. The film is without question 100% better.

Beadie FinziDirector of "Only When I Dance"

Anyone who has had the good fortune to have Felipe on board, as editor or consultant, will see his film to its full potential.

Carlos SaldanhaDirector of "Rio" and "Ice Age"

Felipe was the editor who gave me the most incredible and unimaginable proposals.

Esteban RamirezDirector of "Gestación" and "Caribe"

An editor who knows to maximize a story's potential and present the deep access that he/she has secured.

José RodriguesTribeca Film Institute

Tell us about your project

NDA. The reply arrives within 48 hours, with the non-disclosure agreement and a proposed scope.
Material. With the NDA signed, you send the transcripts, the cut or the script. Format, deadline and price are set before starting.
Delivery. The Dossier arrives within 5 business days. For the Reading and the Edit Suite, we book the conversations from delivery.