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Companhia de Luz invests in Robe

Companhia de Luz is a rental and production company based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is headed by lighting designer/DoP Arthur Farinon and this year is celebrating its fortieth year since being founded by Arthur’s father, Juarez, in 1985.

The company has invested steadily in Robe moving lights for some years, starting with LEDWash 600s over ten years ago, which they needed at the time to service both live and television projects, and these have since been added to with LEDWash 1200s, LEDBeam 150s, Pointes, BMFLS, RoboSpots, and, most recently, iFortes. They now have nearly 400 Robe products in rental stock, which are in constant use. These are utilised on Arthur Farinon’s own design projects plus numerous others that Companhia de Luz services as a rental partner. The company currently has four RoboSpot systems and is the first in the country with this technology.

Companhia de Luz supplies lighting across a wide spectrum of sectors - television, live events, concert touring - and is also a technical service for several key venues. Their TV work includes clients like Brazilian free-to-air network TV Globo which has a large studio complex in Rio, for which they supply both effects and scenic lighting for a range of shows including “Big Brother” and “The Voice”. Around forty Companhia de Luz staff alone are dedicated just to co-ordinating and working with Globo.

As well as developing his own lighting design skills, Arthur Farinon has worked extensively as a programmer for other LDs over the years, and one of his first big design breaks was working for singer/songwriter Milton Nascimento, with whom he worked for ten years.

Juarez Farinon was originally an actor working with lights onstage and then backstage. He was one of the first stage lighting experts in Brazil, and such was his passion that he also built his own kit and explored the more esoteric avenues of how lighting can enhance live and recorded scenarios including theatre, broadcast, and music. He is still actively working on projects now.

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