Filmmaker and Actor
06/06/2024
Audiovisual
Writers Room
He is a filmmaker and actor. He was the first filmmaker from a Brazilian favela to win an international award, with the film “Neguinho e Kika”, at the Marseille Festival (2005). He acted in 46 films, scripted and directed one of the episodes of the feature film “Cinco Vezes Favela”, which opened the Cannes Festival in 2010; and the short “From High Above”, which won more than 30 national and international awards. He directed the documentary “City of God Ten years later”; worked on the search for the cast of “City of God”; in post-production of the feature films “Kasa Branca” (fiction), co-produced by Globo Filmes and Telecine, and “Se Eu Viver Vai Ser Milagre” (doc), for streaming.