Globo Filmes , one of Brazil’s biggest film production forces, is set to back “Spring of the Dragon,” a fiction feature bio focusing on arguably the greatest of the country’s film directors, Novo Cinema icon Glauber Rocha .

The news comes as Globo Filmes and production house Conspiraçao have released new details about “The Brokers,” one of the Brazil’s most awaited movies marking the new film from Fernanda Torres , a Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee for her star turn in Walter Salles’ Oscar winning “I’m Still Here.”

Andrucha Waddington (“The House of Sand”), a Berlinale Series Market winner this February for Globoplay series “Emergency 53,” directs and produces.

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Produced by Vania Catani’s Bananeira Filmes (“Zama,” “Medusa”) and co-produced by Globo Filmes, “Spring of the Dragon” (“A Primavera do Dragão”) will adapt the same-titled non-fiction book by Nelson Motta.

Published in 2012, the book captures the makings of a director who came to symbolize the revolutionary spirit and…