Underrated directors
a list of brazilian directors who don't receive the credit they deserve
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Helvecio Ratton was born on 14 May 1949 in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Helvecio is a director and writer, known for Uma Onda No Ar (2002), A Dança dos Bonecos (1987) and Baptism of Blood (2006).- Director
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Maurício Farias was born in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a director and writer, known for On Air: TV on TV (2014), Veronica (2008) and Slaps & Kisses (2011). He has been married to Andrea Beltrão since 1994. They have three children.- Writer
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Chilean Jorge Durán has been living in Brazil since 1973 and is considered one of the most important scriptwriters in the country. He has written the screenplay of several Brazilian classic films, such as "Lúcio Flávio" (Lucio Flávio, o passageiro da agonia, 1977) and "Pixote" (1981), both directed by Hector Babenco, and "Gaijin" (1979), directed by Tizuka Yamasaki, amongst many others. As a filmmaker he directed his own screenplays "The Color of your Destiny" (A Cor de seu Destino, 1986) and "Forbidden to Forbid" (Proibido Proibir, 2006). "The Color of your Destiny" was screened at Panoram of the Berlinale in 1987 and has received various awards. "Forbidden to Forbid" has received more than 20 international film festival awards between 2006 and 2007, including Best Film Award at Biarritz, Marseille, Cartagena, Bogotá and Viña del Mar film festivals; Best Original Screenplay and Best Director at Huelva Film Festival, Jury Special Prize at Havana Film Festival, Audience Award-Best Film at Utrecht International Film Festival and Best Director at Valdivia Film Festival. "Love is All We Need" (Não Se Pode Viver Sem Amor, 2011), was his third film, which had its world premiere at the Guadalajara Film Festival in Mexico, and has been shown at more than 10 national and international festivals, having received several awards. His forth film "Romance Policial" (2015) was a co-producion between Brazil and Chile. Your world premiere was at Knight Competition, in MIFF (Miami Internacional Film Festival) and has been selected at more than 10 internacional festivals. In 2019 was produced "Streets Of Rio" (Pelas Ruas Do Rio), a documentary that has the city of Rio de Janeiro as a theme based on its inhabitants and its relations with the spaces that compose it. Will be release in 2020.- Writer
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Caetano Gotardo was born in Brazil in 1981 and studied cinema at the University of São Paulo. He has directed numerous award-winning short films, including Sand, which opened Cannes Critics' Week in 2008. His first two features, The Moving Creatures and Your Bones and Your Eyes both screened at festivals around the world to strong critical acclaim and demonstrate a keen interest in how characters reveal themselves through language and movement. Caetano is a member of Filmes do Caixote, a collective of Brazilian filmmakers who have collaborated since film school. He edited both feature films by Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, Good Manners and Hard Labor. He has also written for multiple projects, including Dutra's The Silence of the Sky. All the Dead Ones marks the first co-direction between Gotardo and Dutra. (2020)- Special Effects
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Marcos Bertoni is known for As Sete Vampiras (1986), E O Craque Marcou (1997) and Avanti popolo (2012).