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Osmosis - Netflix  -  March 29, 2019 - Present

Science Fiction Drama (8 episodes to date)

Running Time:  30 - 60 minutes

Stars:

Hugo Becker as Paul Vanhove

Agathe Bonitzer as Esther Vanhove

Stéphane Pitti as Lucas Apert

Gaël Kamilindi as Gabriel

Suzanne Rault-Balet as Swann

Luna Silva as Ana Stern

Manoel Dupont as Niels Larsen

Yuming Hey as Billie Tual

Recurring

Vincent Renaudet as Martin

Lena Laprès as Claire Salomon

Philypa Phoenix as Joséphine Vanhove

Lionel Lingelser as Léopold Goulard

Fabien Ducommun as Antoine Fouché

Waly Dia as Simon

Aurélia Petit as Louise Vanhove

Christiane Conil as Cécile Larsen

Laure-Lucile Simon as Eloan Spivack

Dimitri Storoge as Mathieu Christo

Pierre Hancisse as Samuel Kahn

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain as Romy

Camille-François Nicol as Tom

Jeremy Lewin as Romeo

Jimmy Labeeu as Ilyes

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Osmosis (2019)

Paris, in the near future. Technology has conquered the last frontier: decoding true love. Digging deep into its user's brain data, the new dating app "Osmosis" can find a perfect match with 100% accuracy, turning the concept of absolute soulmate into a reality. But is there a price to pay when letting an algorithm decide who you will love, forever and ever? When in exchange for this undying, ageless love, technology can access the innermost recesses of your mind -- and the best kept secrets of your heart...

Directed by:   Louis Chiche

Starring:   Hugo Becker, Agathe Bonitzer, Luna Silva, Nicolas Van Beveren, Laurent Delbecque, Alexandra Ansidei, Victoire Belezy, Celia Catalifo, Eric Savin, Dominique Isnard, Aurelien Labruyere, Manoel Dupont, Yuming Hey, Lionel Lingelser

Release date:   March 29, 2019

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Riverdale is far from the first attempt to insert online dating into dramatic plots. TV shows ranging from futuristic sci-fi like Black Mirror to reality show Dating Around explore internet dating culture. This media trend is clearly a response to the rapid rise in dating apps. In addition to broadening dating pools, specialized apps from Grindr to Eshq provide outlets for traditionally marginalized communities to find connection. But this technology also raises serious questions about data security and potential negative psychological impacts, particularly for self-esteem and mental health. Now that the possibility of an IRL “meet-cute” seems less probable than a virtual match, TV shows are grappling with the implications of what romance means when soul mates could only be a few taps away.

Such questions are at the center of the new French Netflix series Osmosis, which dives into the darkest potential of algorithm-calculated relationships. Osmosis, which premiered in March, is about a new dating process of the same name that relies on an implanted brain chip to determine someone’s true match. A business whose purpose involves mines an individual’s thoughts and desires is a more extreme manifestation of current data-mining practices, but also one that seems like a likely eventual outcome of them. But Osmosis quickly deviates from this theme, focusing instead on the dynamic between the two sibling geniuses behind the technology. And the show’s disconnected narratives about the technology’s volunteer product testers relies on outdated ideas around who deserves love.

Among those willing to try out the experimental procedure are Ana (Luana Silva), who is overweight; Lucas (Stephane Pitti), who is gay; and Niels (Manoel Dupont), who has a sex addiction. Their identities are portrayed as barriers to a socially acceptable vision of romance. While dating apps have in many ways become normalized, certain users, especially marginalized ones, still face an additional stigma and subsequent struggle to find love online. Ana is paired with a fitness trainer who she thinks is out of her league, a conflict that goes on to define their relationship. Lucas leaves his loving partner for a supposed life match who ends up being a textbook stereotype of a predatory gay man. Niels, who previously spent all his time watching porn, is so overtaken by his own sexual desire that he physically harms his newly connected soul mate. While apps, and the websites that preceded them, have changed the game for those who have struggled with dating, Osmosis doesn’t have sympathy for these characters. Instead, Osmosis portrays physical appearance, sexual identity, and mental-health status as far greater barriers than navigating a relationship that has been determined by a computer.

By contrast, the Black Mirror episode “Hang the DJ” proposed a different idea: that finding love sometimes means breaking the code. In the much-lauded 2017 episode, Amy (Georgina Campbell) and Frank (Joe Cole) are matched through the System, a Big Brother–like dating program enforced by armed guards and portable Amazon Alexa-type devices called Coaches. But the System also gives each relationship a built-in expiration date, and despite Amy and Frank’s genuine connection, theirs is short, and the algorithm goes on to pair them with increasingly incompatible partners. In order to be together, they have to fight back. And upon escaping their universe, they learn they’re only one of many simulations determining the real Frank and Amy’s compatibility.  

What’s eerie about “Hang the DJ” is that the fictional app’s technology doesn’t seem far-fetched in a time of increasingly personalized digital experiences. App users are free to swipe left or right, but they’re still confined by the application’s own parameters, content rules and limitations, and algorithms. Bumble, for instance, puts heterosexual women in control of the process of communication; the app was created to give women a chance to explore prospective dates without getting bombarded with continual messages (and dick pics). But women still have little control over the profiles they see and any eventual harassment they might deal with. This mental exhaustion could lead to the sort of fatalistic complacency we see in “Hang the DJ.” As Lizzie Plaugic writes in the Verge, “It’s not hard to imagine a new Tinder feature that suggests your likelihood of dating a person based on your message exchange rate, or one that suggests restaurants in your area that would be perfect for a first date, based on past data about matched users. Dating apps now require very little actual commitment from users, which can be exhausting. Why not quarantine everyone looking for marriage into one place until they find it?”

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Nomeação para o Conselho Superior da Fundação Centro de Estudos do Comércio Exterior do Brasil - FUNCEX - Rio de Janeiro

É com muita honra, que o CEO da Otimiza Brasil, Bertrand Dupont, aceitou o convite feito pela FUNCEX para integrar o Conselho Superior desta prestigiada instituição, com sede no Rio de Janeiro.

A FUNCEX completou 45 anos de serviços ao Comércio Exterior brasileiro, tendo como Instituidores o BANCO DO BRASIL, CAIXA ECONÔMICA FEDERAL, VALE, BANCO SANTANDER, BANCO ITAÚ, IRB BRASIL RE, PETROBRAS, BNDES e BANCO DO NORDESTE DO BRASIL.

O Conselho Superior é composto por 35 membros nomeados por voto na Assembleia Geral da fundação sob proposta do Conselho Executivo.

As seguintes autoridades e empresários fazem atualmente parte deste prestigioso conselho:

ALAN DO AMARAL FERNANDES - CEO - HAITONG BANCO DE INVESTIMENTOS DO BRASIL/ S/A

ADERBAL FERNANDES LIMA – FIERGS – DIRETOR CIERGS

CARLOS FREDERICO BRAZ DE SOUZA – EX CHEFE DO DEP. DE PLANEJ. E REL. INSTIT. DE COM. EXT. - BNDES

CARLOS MARIANI BITTENCOURT – EX VICE PRESIDENTE – FIRJAN

CARLOS MASSARU TAKAHASHI - COUNTRY MANAGER BRAZIL & MANAGING DIRECTOR | BLACKROCK - 

CARLOS ROBERTO PIO DA COSTA FILHO - SECRETÁRIO EXECUTIVO - CAMEX

CÉZAR LUIZ MÜLLER - COORDENADOR DO CONCEX - FIERGS

CLAUDIA REGINA MARTINS LACERDA - ASSESSOR DA DIRETORIA -ABECE 

DAVID TAFF - CEO - SIEMENS PARTICIPAÇÕES LTDA. / VP - SIEMENS FINANCIAL SERVICES

EMB. ORLANDO LEITE RIBEIRO - SECRETÁRIO DE COM. EXTERIOR E RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS – MAPA

FABRIZIO PANZINI – GERENTE EXECUTIVO DE COMÉRCIO EXTERIOR - CNI

FERNANDO HONORATO BARBOSA - DIRETOR E ECONOMISTA CHEFE - BRADESCO S.A

FERNANDO MARIO GARCÊS B. COSTA - PRESIDENTE UNIÃO DE EXP. UECPLP (ÁFRICA, ÁSIA, AMÉRICA E EUROPA)

GEORGE TEIXEIRA PINHEIRO - PRESIDENTE DA CONF. DAS ASSOC. COMERCIAIS E EMPRESARIAIS DO BRASIL - CACB

HERLON ALVES BRANDÃO – EX DIRETOR. DO DEP. DE ESTATÍSTICA E APOIO À EXPORTAÇÃO – SECEX/ME

JAIME PINTO JUNIOR – GERENTE GERAL DA UNIDADE DE COM. EXT. BANCO DO BRASIL

JOSÉ ANTONIO MAGALHÃES LINS - CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD - GREAT HOLDINGS

JOSÉ AUGUSTO DE CASTRO – PRESIDENTE DA AEB - ASSOCIAÇÃO DE COMÉRCIO EXTERIOR DO BRASIL

JOSÉ SERRADOR NETO - EX DIRETOR DE RELAÇÕES EXTERNAS -DIRETOR DE RELAÇÕES EXTERNAS DA EMBRAER  - VICE PRESIDENTE DE RELAÇÕES INT DA EMBRAER

JOSÉ VELLOSO DIAS CARDOSO - PRESIDENTE EXECUTIVO  -ABIMAQ

LÍLIA MIRANDA MONTEIRO - DIRETOR EXEC. DA ABECE-ASSOC. BRAS. DAS EMPRESAS DE COMÉRCIO EXTERIOR

LUCAS PEDREIRA DE COUTO FERRAZ - SECRETÁRIO DE COMÉRCIO EXTERIOR - ME

LUIZ AUGUSTO DE CASTRO NEVES - PRESIDENTE DO CONSELHO EMPRESARIAL BRASIL – CHINA - CEBC

MARCO POLO SAMPAIO MOREIRA LEITE- EX VICE-PRESIDENTE DO CONS. SUPERIOR DE BENEMÉRITOS DA ACRJ  

MINISTRO LUIZ CESAR GASSER – DIRETOR DO DEP. DE PROMOÇÃO DE SERVIÇOS E INDÚSTRIA - MRE.

PAULO EDUARDO DA SILVA GUIMARÃES - GERENTE EXECUTIVO DE UNIDADE ESTRATÉGICA.

PAULO MANOEL LENZ CESAR PROTÁSIO - EX DIRETOR-PRESIDENTE -  ETC Brasil  

PEDRO PULLEN PARENTE - PRESIDENTE DO CONSELHO ADMINISTRATIVO – BR FOODS

RICARDO KEIPER DE CARVALHO E SILVA - EX GERENTE DE SUPRIMENTOS - GE AVIATION

RODRIGO PIRES TAVARES - GERENTE NACIONAL DE PRODUTOS CORPORATIVOS - CEF

SERGIO APPROBATO MACHADO JUNIOR - PRESIDENTE DA FED. NAC. DAS EMPRESAS DE SERVIÇOS CONTÁBEIS FENACON

SÉRGIO RICARDO SEGÓVIA BARBOSA - PRESIDENTE DA APEXBRASIL

THOMAZ MARINHO DE ANDRADE ZANOTTO - DIRETOR DO DEREX - FIESP

WAGNER MEDEIROS - COORDENADOR DE CÂMBIO, FINANCIAMENTO E SEGURO DE CRÉDITO - AEB

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niels larsen and claire salomon

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