Wahoo: a short documentary for PRIO

Short documentary for PRIO.

Produced in the first half of 2026, the short documentary Wahoo tells the story of PRIO’s first pre-salt project. It took six years of planning, licensing, technical, legal and operational challenges before the field started production.

Written and directed by Giullia Pontual, the film was built from interviews with employees from different areas of the company and from a large archive of interviews and footage that PRIO has gathered since 2015.

Beyond the logistical challenges, there was an important choice of language: moving away from the classic look of interviews in institutional films. PRIO wanted a livelier camera, one that followed the conversations with more freedom and closeness.

The production was planned with a compact crew, without disrupting the company’s routine. In four shoot days, we delivered:

Interviews with two cameras and up to six participants at a time;
Shooting in the interviewees’ own workplaces;
Stills photography of every interview;
Hair and make-up in short intervals;
Organization and logging of 3 TB of archive footage;
Editing and finishing of the film in two months.

The project resulted in a 17-minute short documentary with Portuguese and English subtitles, a one-minute trailer, five clips of about one minute each and a series of behind-the-scenes photos.

So far, Wahoo has been shown only to PRIO employees. At the client’s request, we are publishing only behind-the-scenes photos here. The public release is planned for 2027 and, as soon as PRIO makes the film available on YouTube, the trailer and the full short documentary will also be available on this page.