Festival RNAB – Revelando Novos Atores Brasileiros (“Revealing New Brazilian Actors”) is a São Paulo festival built around actors. Its central competition gives Best Actor and Best Actress awards to performers: entrants receive an exclusive text from the festival and record it as a monologue, and the finalists are entered in the qualifying round of FRENALA, a festival of Latin American actors in Chile, whose winners go on to the Actor Mund final in Los Angeles. Alongside the acting awards, the festival runs an international showcase of short films, music videos, trailers, TV programmes, web series, features and documentaries, with honorary awards by category. It was founded by Sandra Camilo and is produced by Podcultura.
The event date of the 16th edition is 31 October 2026.
Animation, Documentary, Feature, Music Video, Short, Student, Television, Web and New Media
Awards and prizes
Best Actress and Best Actor (adult) – the festival’s main awards.
In the other categories the festival gives honorary awards: Best Fiction (feature and short), Best Animation (short), Best Documentary (feature and short), Best TV / Internet Programme, Best International Feature and Short, Best National Short, Special Jury Award.
Exclusive awards: Best Female Screenwriter and Director, Best LGBTQIA Short.
Competing films may also be considered for the audience award and the special jury award, and the festival may grant an additional exclusive award.
Festival rules
Rules of the 16th edition:
The festival is open to filmmakers from around the world; any shooting format and any genre is accepted.
Running time, credits included: up to 15 minutes for short films, 40 minutes for medium-length films and 110 minutes for features. Productions must have been completed after 1 January 2024.
Films not originally in Portuguese or Spanish must be subtitled in one of these languages.
Films are submitted online only, through the platforms approved by the festival; all screenings are digital. A special committee of specialists makes the selection, and the organisers contact the selected films for screening files. Selected films may be shown in any competition section at the festival’s discretion, and clips of up to one minute may be used for promotion.
Actors receive an exclusive monologue text from the festival after filling in its entry form.
Entering implies authorisation to screen the selected work during the festival and full acceptance of the rules.
