Fábio Barreto
Encyclopedia
Fábio Barreto is a Brazilian filmmaker, actor
, screenwriter
, and film producer
. He is best known for directing and co-writing Lula, o filho do Brasil
, a biography based on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
's early life, which had been the most expensive film in the history of Brazilian cinema
upon its release. He has been coma
tose for over a year after being involved in a car accident in Rio de Janeiro
.
, responsible for the 1976 international box office hit Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
, starring Sônia Braga
.
A estória de José e Maria. Since then, he acted in two films — Nelson Pereira dos Santos' Memórias do Cárcere (1984) , and his father's For all - O trampolim da vitória (1997) — and directed nine feature films, the Brazilian version of Desperate Housewives
, an episode of TV series Você Decide and two other short films.
His first feature was Índia, a Filha do Sol, starring Glória Pires
as a Native-Brazilian
who tries to survive the brutality of diamond mining in Central-Western Brazil and ends up falling in love with a white soldier. The film score was composed by Caetano Veloso
, which Barreto would later criticize for calling Lula an "illiterate". In 1986 he directed O Rei do Rio, based on a play by Dias Gomes
, which tells the story of two friends who enrich through illegal gambling game jogo do bicho
and became rivals in the struggle for political power. Both films featured Nuno Leal Maia as the leading male star.
His next film was Luzia-Homem, based on the novel of the same name by 19th century writer Domingos Olímpio
. It featured Claudia Ohana as a masculinized woman seeking revenge for the murder of her parents, which ends up finding love. In 1991, following the Lambada
dance craze
, he directed a film about it. After a four-year hiatus, he directed O Quatrilho
, the first Brazilian film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
since O Pagador de Promessas, released in 1962. In 1997 he directed his first English language
film, Bela Donna (released in the United States
as White Dunes), starring Natasha Henstridge
and Andrew McCarthy
.
In 2002 he directed his seventh film, the critically acclaimed A Paixão de Jacobina. He would only return to directing a few years later, releasing Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio and the Brazilian version of Desperate Housewives
(filmed in Argentina
) in 2007. In 2009 he shot Lula, o filho do Brasil
. The film, which premiered on January 1, 2010, is his fourth collaboration with Glória Pires.
, a southern neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. According to firefighter Wagner Generoso, a car came too near to the filmmaker's vehicle, which hit a stone wall, flew to another lane and overturned. He was sent to Hospital Miguel Couto in Leblon
, where he faced a three-hour surgery that same night, and later transferred to the Hospital Copa D'Or. On the following day, he was submitted to an operation to reduce the brain swelling. He was also submitted to a tracheostomy, to help him breathe. According to the neurosurgeon Paulo Niemeyer Filho, the director had an acute subdural hematoma
and a contusion in the temporal lobe
on both sides. "The skull's left side was removed and placed in the patient's rib. It will be stored there until it is put back in its place," he said. On March 22, Fabio was transferred to his house, where his treatment continues.
Several friends of Fábio visited his family in the hospital, such as fellow filmmakers Guel Arraes, and Sérgio Rezende
, Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio star Cristiana Oliveira, Frei Betto
, Glória Pires' husband, singer Orlando Morais, O Quatrilho
star Patrícia Pillar
, and her husband, former presidential candidate Ciro Gomes
. President Lula called the Barreto family to provide solidarity and wish Fábio a quick recovery. On February 3, 2010, Barreto left the intensive care unit of the Hospital Copa D'Or, although he remains unconscient.
, when he calls Lula an illiterate, is proving to be a deeply colonized, elitist person. At the same time, you have Obama
saying that Lula is 'the man'."
As actor:
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, and film producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
. He is best known for directing and co-writing Lula, o filho do Brasil
Lula, o filho do Brasil
Lula, The Son of Brazil is a 2009 biographical Brazilian drama film based on the early life of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Fábio Barreto, the film was released on January 1, 2010...
, a biography based on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , known popularly as Lula, served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.A founding member of the Workers' Party , he ran for President three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as...
's early life, which had been the most expensive film in the history of Brazilian cinema
Cinema of Brazil
Brazilian cinema was introduced early in the 20th century but took some time to consolidate itself as a popular form of entertainment. The film industry of Brazil has gone through periods of ups and downs, a reflection of its dependency on State funding and incentives.- Early days :A couple of...
upon its release. He has been coma
Coma
In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
tose for over a year after being involved in a car accident in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
.
Biography
Barreto was born on 1957 in Rio de Janeiro. He is the youngest son of well-known movie producers Luís Carlos and Lucy Barreto. His brother is the fellow filmmaker Bruno BarretoBruno Barreto
Bruno Barreto is a Brazilian film director born in Rio de Janeiro. He has been making feature-length films ever since he was seventeen years old and remains one of Brazil’s most accomplished and popular directors to this day...
, responsible for the 1976 international box office hit Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a 1976 comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto. Based on the novel of the same name by Jorge Amado, it takes place in 1940s Bahia. It stars Sônia Braga, José Wilker, and Mauro Mendonça in the leading roles...
, starring Sônia Braga
Sônia Braga
Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian actress. She has been nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.-Early life:...
.
Career
He started his career in 1977, at age 20, directing the short subjectShort subject
A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
A estória de José e Maria. Since then, he acted in two films — Nelson Pereira dos Santos' Memórias do Cárcere (1984) , and his father's For all - O trampolim da vitória (1997) — and directed nine feature films, the Brazilian version of Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
, an episode of TV series Você Decide and two other short films.
His first feature was Índia, a Filha do Sol, starring Glória Pires
Glória Pires
Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Moraes, known simply as Glória Pires , is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her roles in Rede Globo telenovelas such as Dancin' Days, Cabocla, Vale Tudo, Mulheres de Areia and O Rei do Gado...
as a Native-Brazilian
Indigenous peoples in Brazil
The Indigenous peoples in Brazil comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the European invasion around 1500...
who tries to survive the brutality of diamond mining in Central-Western Brazil and ends up falling in love with a white soldier. The film score was composed by Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
, which Barreto would later criticize for calling Lula an "illiterate". In 1986 he directed O Rei do Rio, based on a play by Dias Gomes
Dias Gomes
Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes was an important Brazilian playwright.He was born on October 19, 1922 in Salvador, Bahia and died in a car accident in São Paulo, in 1999. He started writing plays at age 15 and later wrote soap operas. He wrote the first ever colored soap opera in Brazilian...
, which tells the story of two friends who enrich through illegal gambling game jogo do bicho
Jogo do Bicho
Jogo do Bicho is an illegal gambling game in Brazil, prohibited by federal law since 1946. Very popular throughout the country, the "game" is actually a lottery-type drawing operated on a regional basis by mobsters known as contraventores , bicheiros or banqueiros...
and became rivals in the struggle for political power. Both films featured Nuno Leal Maia as the leading male star.
His next film was Luzia-Homem, based on the novel of the same name by 19th century writer Domingos Olímpio
Domingos Olímpio
Domingos Olímpio Braga Cavalcanti was a Brazilian novelist, journalist and playwright, famous for his Naturalist novel Luzia-Homem.-Life:Olímpio was born in the city of Sobral, in the State of Ceará, in 1857...
. It featured Claudia Ohana as a masculinized woman seeking revenge for the murder of her parents, which ends up finding love. In 1991, following the Lambada
Lambada
Lambada is a dance from Pará, Brazil. The dance became internationally popular in the 1980s, especially in Latin America and Caribbean countries...
dance craze
Dance Craze
Dance Craze is a 1981 British documentary film about the English 2 Tone music genre.The film was directed by Joe Massot, who originally wanted to do a film only about the band Madness, who he met during their first US tour. Massot later changed his plans to include the whole 2 Tone movement...
, he directed a film about it. After a four-year hiatus, he directed O Quatrilho
O Quatrilho
O Quatrilho is a 1995 Brazilian drama film directed by Fábio Barreto. It was adapted from a José Clemente Pozenato novel by telenovela writer Antônio Calmon and screenwriter Leopoldo Serran. It stars famous telenovela actresses Patrícia Pillar and Glória Pires and Bruno Campos, which later became...
, the first Brazilian film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
since O Pagador de Promessas, released in 1962. In 1997 he directed his first English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
film, Bela Donna (released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
as White Dunes), starring Natasha Henstridge
Natasha Henstridge
Natasha T. Henstridge is a Canadian fashion model turned actress. Her most notable on-screen roles include Species, The Whole Nine Yards, It Had To Be You, Ghosts of Mars, She Spies, the TV series Eli Stone, and the Canadian TV mini-series Would Be Kings, for which she won the Gemini Award for...
and Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew Thomas McCarthy is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the 1980s films St. Elmo's Fire, Mannequin, Weekend at Bernie's, Pretty in Pink, and Less Than Zero, and more recently for his role in the television shows Lipstick Jungle, White Collar and Royal Pains.-Career:McCarthy...
.
In 2002 he directed his seventh film, the critically acclaimed A Paixão de Jacobina. He would only return to directing a few years later, releasing Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio and the Brazilian version of Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
(filmed in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
) in 2007. In 2009 he shot Lula, o filho do Brasil
Lula, o filho do Brasil
Lula, The Son of Brazil is a 2009 biographical Brazilian drama film based on the early life of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Fábio Barreto, the film was released on January 1, 2010...
. The film, which premiered on January 1, 2010, is his fourth collaboration with Glória Pires.
Car accident
On December 19, 2009, at around 10 p.m. (UTC-3) Barreto was involved in a car accident in BotafogoBotafogo
Botafogo is a beachfront neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a mostly middle class and small commerce community, and is located between the hills of Mundo Novo, Dona Marta and São João .- History :Botafogo was named after João Pereira de Sousa Botafogo, who was responsible for the...
, a southern neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. According to firefighter Wagner Generoso, a car came too near to the filmmaker's vehicle, which hit a stone wall, flew to another lane and overturned. He was sent to Hospital Miguel Couto in Leblon
Leblon
Leblon is an affluent neighbourhood and a beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It's a neighbourhood of upper class people in the southern zone of the city...
, where he faced a three-hour surgery that same night, and later transferred to the Hospital Copa D'Or. On the following day, he was submitted to an operation to reduce the brain swelling. He was also submitted to a tracheostomy, to help him breathe. According to the neurosurgeon Paulo Niemeyer Filho, the director had an acute subdural hematoma
Subdural hematoma
A subdural hematoma or subdural haematoma , also known as a subdural haemorrhage , is a type of haematoma, a form of traumatic brain injury. Blood gathers within the outermost meningeal layer, between the dura mater, which adheres to the skull, and the arachnoid mater, which envelops the brain...
and a contusion in the temporal lobe
Temporal lobe
The temporal lobe is a region of the cerebral cortex that is located beneath the Sylvian fissure on both cerebral hemispheres of the mammalian brain....
on both sides. "The skull's left side was removed and placed in the patient's rib. It will be stored there until it is put back in its place," he said. On March 22, Fabio was transferred to his house, where his treatment continues.
Several friends of Fábio visited his family in the hospital, such as fellow filmmakers Guel Arraes, and Sérgio Rezende
Sérgio Rezende
Sérgio Rezende is a Brazilian filmmaker. He is most known for directing several biographical films, such as Lamarca, Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei, and Zuzu Angel, about guerrilla leader Carlos Lamarca, entrepreneur Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, and stylist Zuzu Angel Jones, which embarked in a...
, Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio star Cristiana Oliveira, Frei Betto
Frei Betto
Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo, O.P., better known as Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, political activist, liberation theologist and Dominican friar. He was imprisoned for four years by the military dictatorship for smuggling people out of Brazil...
, Glória Pires' husband, singer Orlando Morais, O Quatrilho
O Quatrilho
O Quatrilho is a 1995 Brazilian drama film directed by Fábio Barreto. It was adapted from a José Clemente Pozenato novel by telenovela writer Antônio Calmon and screenwriter Leopoldo Serran. It stars famous telenovela actresses Patrícia Pillar and Glória Pires and Bruno Campos, which later became...
star Patrícia Pillar
Patrícia Pillar
Patrícia Pillar is a Brazilian television and film actress.-Biography:Patrícia Gadelha Pillar was born in Brasília, Distrito Federal to Nuno Pillar and Lucy Gadelha...
, and her husband, former presidential candidate Ciro Gomes
Ciro Gomes
Ciro Ferreira Gomes is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was a founding member of the then-center-left Brazilian Social Democracy Party , but left the party in 1996. He later moved to the Socialist People's Party and ran as the PPS' presidential candidate in 1998 and 2002...
. President Lula called the Barreto family to provide solidarity and wish Fábio a quick recovery. On February 3, 2010, Barreto left the intensive care unit of the Hospital Copa D'Or, although he remains unconscient.
Personal life
He was married to actress Dora Pellegrino, with whom he had a daughter, Mariana. He is married to actress Déborah Kalume since 2003, with whom he had João (b. 2006). He is also the father of Lucas (with Amanda Martins) and Júlia Barreto Borges (with his first wife, actress Marcia Barreto), which starred in his films Luzia Homem (1987), O Quatrilho (1995), and Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio (2006).Political views
In an interview to Cult magazine, Barreto said his film Lula, o filho do Brasil did not had any political connotations, and gave his opinion about the President: "Lula represents a revolution over the course of Brazilian society, because he is deeply disturbing in a serious thing that has always existed in Brazil, called inferiority complex [...] So, he is responsible for [...] leaving [the elite] actionless, for showing how the 'enlightened' elite is intellectually colonized. Caetano VelosoCaetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
, when he calls Lula an illiterate, is proving to be a deeply colonized, elitist person. At the same time, you have Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
saying that Lula is 'the man'."
Filmography
As director:- 2009 - Lula, o filho do BrasilLula, o filho do BrasilLula, The Son of Brazil is a 2009 biographical Brazilian drama film based on the early life of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Fábio Barreto, the film was released on January 1, 2010...
- 2007 - Donas de Casa Desesperadas (Brazilian version of Desperate HousewivesDesperate HousewivesDesperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
) - 2007 - Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio
- 2002 - A Paixão de Jacobina
- 2000 - De Conversa em Conversa (short)
- 1997 - Bela Donna
- 1995 - O QuatrilhoO QuatrilhoO Quatrilho is a 1995 Brazilian drama film directed by Fábio Barreto. It was adapted from a José Clemente Pozenato novel by telenovela writer Antônio Calmon and screenwriter Leopoldo Serran. It stars famous telenovela actresses Patrícia Pillar and Glória Pires and Bruno Campos, which later became...
- 1992 - Você Decide (TV series)
- 1991 - Lambada
- 1988 - Luzia Homem
- 1986 - O Rei do Rio
- 1984 - Índia, a Filha do Sol
- 1978 - Mané Garrincha (short)
- 1977 - A Estória de José e Maria (short)
As actor:
- 1997 - For all - O Trampolim da Vitória
- 1984 - Memórias do CárcereMemórias do CárcereMemórias do Cárcere may refer to:*Memórias do Cárcere is a book by Camilo Castelo Branco in 1862;*Memórias do Cárcere is a book by Graciliano Ramos in 1953;*Memórias do Cárcere is a film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos in 1984....
as Siqueira Campos