List of Brazilian directors
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This is a list of Brazilian directors film directors born in Brazil
or who have established Brazilian citizenship or residency.
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or who have established Brazilian citizenship or residency.
- Gilda de AbreuGilda de AbreuGilda de Abreu was born in Paris on September 23, 1904 and died in Rio de Janeiro on June 4, 1979. She was a director, actress, singer, writer and radio presenter in Brazil...
- Karla Eduvia
- Karim AïnouzKarim AïnouzKarim Aïnouz is a film director.-Filmography:* 2006 - O Céu de Suely , 35mm, color, 88 min.* 2002 - Madame Satã, 35mm, color, 105 min....
- Tata AmaralTata AmaralTata Amaral born in 1961 in São Paulo is an award winning Brazilian director, writer, producer and actor. She has won various awards across South America, including 'Best director' and 'Best film'.-References:...
- Joaquim Pedro de AndradeJoaquim Pedro de AndradeJoaquim Pedro de Andrade was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He was a member of the Cinema Novo movement in Brazil. Andrade is best known for his 1969 film Macunaíma, based loosely on the novel of the same title by Mário de Andrade...
- Hector BabencoHector BabencoHéctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States....
- Bruno BarretoBruno BarretoBruno 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...
- Lima BarretoLima Barreto (director)Lima Barreto was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed six films between 1940 and 1961.-Filmography:* Fazenda Velha * Painel * Santuário * O Cangaceiro...
- Alberto CavalcantiAlberto CavalcantiAlberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a...
- Eduardo CoutinhoEduardo CoutinhoEduardo Coutinho is an Brazilian film director, screen writer, actor and film producer.He directed and wrote the script to the 1967 popular Brazilian film, El ABC del amor near the beginning of his career...
- Heitor DhaliaHeitor DhaliaHeitor Dhalia is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1988. His film, À Deriva, competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
- Cacá Diegues
- Anselmo Duarte
- Jorge FurtadoJorge FurtadoJorge Furtado , is a Brazilian film writer and director. He also works for Rede Globo. One of his most recognized pictures is the short film Isle of Flowers from 1989. His most recent picture is Saneamento Básico, released in 2007.-External links:...
- Ruy GuerraRuy GuerraRuy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira is a film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor in Brazil. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques in Moçambique, when it was still a colony of Portugal....
- Cao HamburgerCao HamburgerCarlos Imperio Hamburger , or, simply, Cao Hamburger, is a Brazilian screenwriter and director of movies and TV. He is the creator of the Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum series of programs for children in the TV Cultura of São Paulo, which gave origin also to a successful movie picture with the same title...
- Walter Hugo Khouri
- José Mojica Marins
- Humberto MauroHumberto MauroHumberto Duarte Mauro was a Brazilian film director. His best known work is Ganga Bruta. He is often considered the greatest director of early Brazilian cinema.-Career:...
- Fernando MeirellesFernando MeirellesFernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films...
- José PadilhaJosé PadilhaJosé Padilha is an award-winning Brazilian film director and producer.Padilha emerged onto the Brazilian movie scene with his first feature film Bus 174. In 2007, Padilha directed The Elite Squad , his first fictional film. The film was a commercial and critical success, seen by more than 11...
- Mário PeixotoMario PeixotoMário Rodrigues Breves Peixoto was mainly known for his first and only film Limite, a silent experimental film filmed in 1930 and premiered in Rio de Janeiro on 17 May 1931. Peixoto wrote, directed and took up a minor role in the film...
- Daniel RibeiroDaniel RibeiroDaniel Ribeiro is a Brazilian film director. He won an award in 2007 for his short film You, Me and Him .-Filmography:* 2007 - You, Me and Him...
- Glauber Rocha
- Luiz Duarte da RochaLuiz Duarte da RochaLuiz Duarte da Rocha is a Brazilian playwright and director, and singer/songwriter. He was one of the creators of the Movimento do Disco Independente in 1979. He recorded two albums, but stopped recording in 1984 for 20 years before returning with a show titled “Caetaneando”...
- João Moreira SallesJoão Moreira SallesJoão Moreira Salles is a Brazilian documentarian and president of the Instituto Moreira Salles. In 2006, he founded the magazine piauí. He has also taught courses on documentary at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Princeton University...
- Walter SallesWalter SallesWalter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos
- David SchurmannDavid SchurmannDavid Schurman first showed a passion for film making at age 13, when he started filming the adventures during the Schurmann Family first circumnavigation of the world. After learning the secrets of the profession hands-on, he got a formal degree in Cinema in New Zealand. Afterward, he completed...
- Sérgio ToledoSérgio ToledoSérgio Toledo Segall or simply Sérgio Toledo is the son of actress Beatriz Segall and an award-winning Brazilian screenwriter and director most known for his film Vera, that won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Ana Beatriz Nogueira and a nomination for Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin...
- Tizuka Yamasaki
- Fernando MeirellesFernando MeirellesFernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films...