An independent film studio, made of nine people, working between Lisbon and Mexico City since 2017.

A SMALL STUDIO for MOVING PICTURES.

Name: The Long Quiet
Director: Hana Reza
Duration: 84 min

FoundedSept 2017, Lisbon · by L. Marais & H. Reza

Reel 26 / 14 min · open

Now showingThe Long Quiet — 84 min — Festivals Q1 '27 · in post

Now in post / Film 014

The Long Quiet

An 84-minute feature about the cinematographer Anna-Maria Carini, the four months she spent in a single boarding house in 1971, and the seventy-four reels of unseen footage she shot there.

Filmed in Trieste & Buenos Aires across nine weeks, on Kodak Vision3 250D, with a single 25mm anamorphic lens. We do not know if this is normal. We didn't check.

In post-production through November '26. Festival run Spring '27. Distribution conversations open.

Direction · Hana Reza

Cinematography · Tomás Brand · BSC

Score · Yves Quintana (Brila Records)

Producer · L. Marais · Atelier Tide Pictures

Format · 16mm anamorphic · 1:2.39 · DCP

TEASER · 1:42The Long Quiet — REEL 014, in post.

Fourteen films
in nine years.

2017 — 2026 · fourteen entries

2026

The studio

Nine people.
Two cities. One reel.

REEL is run from a converted bakery in Alfama (Lisbon) and a small loft in Roma Sur (Mexico City), by nine permanent staff and a recurring group of about thirty collaborators.

We make, on average, one feature and one short per year. We accept commissions for documentary work on a rolling basis, and a small amount of branded content — usually for institutions we already admire.

14films · since 2017

9full-time staff

41festival selections

"We do not make films about events. We make films about the hour after the event, when the room is quiet and someone is still in it."

Hana Reza— Co-founder, on directing the studio

The nine.

Co-founder · Director

HANA REZA

Directs the studio's features. Born in Isfahan, trained in Paris, lives in Alfama.

Co-founder · Producer

L. MARAIS

Runs Atelier Tide Pictures. Handles finance, festivals, and the quiet nos.

Cinematographer

TOMÁS BRAND

BSC. Shoots on film almost exclusively. Owns the 25mm anamorphic.

Editor

INÊS FONTES

Cuts everything on a KEM. Believes in the long take. Rarely sleeps.

Sound Design

YVES QUINTANA

Founded Brila Records. Records rain in six countries.

Production Design

CARMEN OLIVA

Builds rooms nobody notices. Which is the point.

Colorist

A. WEISS

Grades in DaVinci from a Berlin basement. Available April–October.

Studio Coordinator

JULIA MARÉ

Keeps two cities in one calendar. The reason anything ships.

Archivist

R. ANDRADE

Catalogues every reel, every stock, every take. Since 2019.

Have a quiet picture
you want to make?

We open the next commission slot in October '26. Three weeks of conversation, one week of writing, and either a yes or a kind and specific no.

Lisbon

Studio · founded 2017

A converted bakery in Alfama. Tuesdays & Thursdays for scheduled visits.

studio@reel.films

+351 21 0000 000

Mexico City

Studio · founded 2021

A small loft in Roma Sur. By appointment only, please.

mexico@reel.films

+52 55 0000 0000

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A SMALL STUDIO for MOVING PICTURES.

The Long Quiet

The Long Quiet

Carmesí

Atelier delle Maree

The room we never furnished

Sable, après la pluie

Pavilion delle Maree

Casa do Eco

Nine people.Two cities. One reel.

The nine.

HANA REZA

L. MARAIS

TOMÁS BRAND

INÊS FONTES

YVES QUINTANA

CARMEN OLIVA

A. WEISS

JULIA MARÉ

R. ANDRADE

Have a quiet pictureyou want to make?

Lisbon

Mexico City

Nine people.
Two cities. One reel.

Have a quiet picture
you want to make?