INFLAMÁVEL

2015 Retrospective of feature films at the International Film Festival Panama

2014 Retrospective of work at the Wexner Center for The Arts – Columbus, USA

2014 Retrospective of work at the Travelling Film Festival – Rennes, France

2014 Praia do Futuro has its world premiere at the 64° Berlin International Film Festival Competition

2014 Cathedrals of Culture has its world premiere at the 64° Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale Special

2013 Invited to create short film in celebration of the 70th Venice International Film Festival

2012 Retrospective of work at the 14^th Festival FILMAR en America Latina – Genève, Switzerland

2011 Retrospective of feature films together with fellow director Marcelo Gomes at Casa de America – Madrid, Spain

2011 The Silver Cliff was selected for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival and won Best Director at Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival

2011 Invited to direct a commissioned film for Sharjah Biennial 10

2011 Retrospective of work with Marcelo Gomes at Casa de América – Madrid, Spain

2011 Invited to develop videoinstallation with Olafur Eliasson and to direct a documentary commissioned by Videobrasil Festival

2009 Film I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You won theFIPRESCI Award at the Havana Film Festival and Best Director at Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival

2006 Film O Céu de Suely was selected for the Venice Film Festival, won the Grand Coral – First Prize at the Havana Film Festival and Best Film at Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, among other 50 prizes

2004 Artist-in-residence at the Berliner Kunstler Program/DAAD, Berlin, Germany

2003 Writer-in-residence at the Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation, Paris, France

2003 Project Sertão de Acrilico Azul Piscina awarded production funds from Instituto Itaú Cultural

2001 Film Madame Satã screened at the Cannes Film Festival and also at Sundance, Toronto, Havana, Chicago. The film was more than 40 prizes worldwide and it was distributed in over 20 countries

1998 Project Madame Satã awarded with production financing from the Hubert Bals Fund – Holland

1998 Best short film, Paixão Nacional, Ann Harbor Film Festival – Michigan, USA

1997 Project Madame Satã awarded with financing from Fonds Sud, France

1996 New York Foudation for the Arts, artist fellowship – NYC, USA

1996 Jerome Foundation, grant for the project Hic Habitat Felicitas, Saint Paul, USA

1996 Artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts – Alberta, Canada

1996 Art Matters Foundation, grant for the project Paixão Nacional I – NYC, USA

1993 New York State Council on the Arts, grants for the documentary Seams – NYC, USA

1992 Artist in residence, Film/Video Arts Artist/Mentor Program – NYC, USA

PERSONAL

Born 1966, Fortaleza, Brazil

EDUCATION

1992 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NYC. Independent Study Program – Studio Section

1991 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NYC. Master’s in Studio Art

1988 UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASILIA, Brasilia, Brazil, BA in Architecture

1985 UNITE PEDAGOGIQUE D’ARCHITECTURE 6, Paris, La Villete, France, Visiting Student

FILMOGRAPHY

DIRECTOR

2019 The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, fiction, DCP, color, 139 min

2018 Central Airport THF, documentary, DCP, color, 97 min

2015 Velázquez – Wild Realism, documentary, HD video, color, 52 min

2014 Futuro Beach, fiction, 35mm, color, 106 min

2014 Cathedrals of Culture, documentary, 3D, color, episode Centre Pompidou

2011 The Silver Cliff, fiction, 35mm, color, 84 min

2010 I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You, fiction, 35mm, color, 75 min

2006 Love for Sale, fiction, 35mm, color, 88 min

2002 Madame Satã, fiction, 35mm, color, 105 min

SCREENWRITER

2019 The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, co-writer, fiction, HD video, color, 139 min

2014 Futuro Beach, fiction, 35mm, color, 106 min

2014 Cathedrals of Culture, documentary, 3D HD video, color, episode Centre Pompidou

2011 The Silver Cliff, fiction, 35mm, color, 84 min

2010 I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You, fiction, 35mm, color, 75 min

2006 Love for Sale, fiction, 35mm, color, 88 min

2005 Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures, fiction, color, 104 min – directed by Marcelo Gomes

2005 Lower City, fiction, 35mm, color, 93 min – directed by Sérgio Machado

2002 Madame Satã, fiction, 35mm, color, 105 min

2001 Behind the Sun, fiction, 35mm, color, 105 min – directed by Walter Salles

TELEVISION

2015 Velázquez – Wild Realism, documentary, HD video, color, 52 min – French ARTE

2008 Alice, 13 episode series for HBO Latin America

1998 Le Ballon des Bairros, 26min – program for the weekly series SagaCités – France 3

INSTALLATIONS

2014 Promised Land, video installation, 3 channel HD video, 5 – exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art – Ceará and Parque Lage – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2011 Sonnenallee, visual essay, super 8/digital, color, 12 min – commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation for the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates

2011 Destricted.br, visual essay, 16mm, color, 15 min – commissioned by Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Galpão, Brazil

2011 Your empathic city, video installation, collaboration with Olafur Eliasson, comissioned by Videobrasil São Paulo, Brazil

2004 Se fosse tudo sempre assim, film/video installation, super 8/digital, 4min – São Paulo Biennial, Brazil

SHORTS

2014 Domingo, documentary/visual essay, HD video, color, 26min

2014 Vira Bola, Vira Lata, visual essay, HD video, color, 3min – commisioned by project Short Plays

2014 Gentilândia Park, fiction, HD video, color, 26min – commisioned by project Short Plays

2011 The man who defuses bombs, video essay, video, color, 1,32 min. Commissioned by the 70^th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica – 70 Futuro Reloaded, Venice, Italy

2004 Sertão de Acrílico Azul Piscina, documentary, super 8/digital, color, 26 min.

2000 Rifa-me, fiction, 35 mm, color, 28 min.

1996 Hic Habitat Felicitas, fiction, 35mm, color, 26 min.

1994 Paixão Nacional, experimental, 16mm, color, 9 min.

1993 Seams, documentary, 16mm, color, 29 min.

1992 O Preso, fiction, video, color, 19 min.

CURATORIAL, JURY AND PROFESSORSHIPS

2019 Filmmaker Mentor at Qumra– Doha Film Institute – Doha, Qatar

2017 Jury for Sørfond project selection – Norwegian South Film Fund – Oslo, Norway

2017 Creative Advisor at Sundance Screenwriters Lab – Park City, USA

2016 Jury – International Competition – Fiction at Festival de Cine de Lima – Peru

2016 Creative Advisor at Sundance Screenwriters Lab – Park City, USA

2016 Creative Advisor at Center For Audiovisual Narratives – Screenwriters Lab One Year Program, Feb – Dec – Fortaleza, Brazil

2015 Creative Advisor in Screenwriting at Curso de Desarrollo de Proyectos Iberoamericanos – Ibermedia – Madrid, Spain

2015 Creative Advisor to hybrid projects at Taller Andino de Desarrollo – Ibermedia – La Paz, Bolivia

2015 Invited to deliver a Masterclass during the Taller Andino de Desarrollo – Ibermedia – La Paz, Bolivia

2015 Creative Advisor at Sundance Screenwriters Lab – Park City, USA

2015 Invited to compose the jury of Forum Expanded at the Berlin International Film Festival

2015 Creative Advisor at Center For Audiovisual Narratives – Screenwriters Lab One Year Program, Feb – Dec – Fortaleza, Brazil

2014 Invited to conduct the workshop Framing our Society – Tendencies in Contemporary Film at Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology – Oslo, Norway

2014 Invited lecturer at the Wexner Center for The Arts – Visiting Filmmakers – Columbus, USA

2014 Invited to deliver a Masterclass at the Travelling Film Festival – Rennes, France

2014 Invited to the Massachusetts Intitute of Technology, Program in Art, Culture and Technology – Cinematic Migrations, public lecture and seminar for enrolled students – Cambridge, USA

2014 Creative Advisor at Center For Audiovisual Narratives – Screenwriters Lab One Year Program, Feb – Dec – Fortaleza, Brazil

2013 Jury for the Heiner Carow Award at the Berlin International Film Festival – Berlin, Germany

2012 Invited to compose the Evaluation Committee for Final Projects at EICTV – San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba

2012 Jury at the Cannes Film Festival for Cinéfondation and Short Film Competition – Cannes, France

2012 Workshop on script development at Project Ficção Viva II – Curitiba, Brasil

2011 Invited lecturer to Director in Focus at the Birkbeck College – Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies – London, UK

2011 Invited lecturer at the Princeton Documentary Festival – Princeton, USA

2008 Creative Advisor at the 5^th Rawi Middle East Screenwriters Lab – Amman, Jordan

2009 Invited lecturer at the International Meeting of the Contemporary Image – São Paulo, Brazil

2008 Invited lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute for the Spheres of Interest Graduate Lecture Series – San Francisco, USA

2008 Jury at the Short Shorts Film Festival – Tokyo, Japan

2008 Creative Advisor at the 4^th Rawi Middle East Screenwriters Lab – Amman, Jordan

1994 Visiting lecturer at Media Arts Dept., Columbia College – Chicago, USA

1994 Visiting lecturer on Sexuality in Brazilian Media, invited by Prof. Robert Stam, Cinema Studies Department, New York University – New York City, USA

1993 Co-director of Mix, New York Experimental Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – 93/94

AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND RETROSPECTIVES

2019 The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão has its world premiere at the 72^ndCannes International Film Festival and won Un Certain Regard Prize

2018 Central Airport THF has its world premiere at the 68^thBerlin International Film Festival Panorama and won the Amnesty International Prize

2015 Retrospective of feature films at the International Film Festival Panama

2014 Retrospective of work at the Wexner Center for The Arts – Columbus, USA

2014 Retrospective of work at the Travelling Film Festival – Rennes, France

2014 Futuro Beach has its world premiere at the 64^th Berlin International Film Festival Competition

2014 Cathedrals of Culture has its world premiere at the 64^th Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale Special

2013 Invited to create short film in celebration of the 70^th Venice International Film Festival