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[biography]
1964_ Born in São Paulo, Brazil.
[education]
1993_ Technique and theory of creative
documentaries, specialization – ENEA-CSC, Rome (IT).
1991_1992_ Cinema - Centro Sperimentale di
Cinematografia, Rome (IT).
1990_1991_ M.A. (Film studies) British Film
Institute (UK).
1987_1990_ B.A. Fine Arts (Mixed media) -
London Metropolitan University (UK).
1981_1986_ B. A. Fine Arts (Visual
Communication) – FAAP, São Paulo (BR).
[COLLECTIONS]
MAB - Museu de Arte Brasileira, São Paulo
- SP, Brazil.
MACRO - Museu Laboratorio di Arte
Contemporanea di Roma, Italy.
MLAC - Museo Laboratorio di Arte
Contemporanea, Rome, Italy.
VIDEOBRASIL – Acervo, São Paulo - SP, Brazil.
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several private collections: Italy, Brazil, USA, UK, Germany, Holland, and
China.
[awards, grants and sponsorships]
2013_ PREMIO FUNARTE ARTES VISUAIS (Guest
artist for live audiovisual performance Phonetic Fragments by Cristina Elias) FUNARTE - Ministry of Culture of Brazil.
2012_ PREMIO GLOBO TRICOLORE for the project I IS AN OTHER, Gualdo Tadino, Italy
2011_ FUNARTE CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE 2011,
for THIS_PLACEMENTS, FUNARTE - Ministry of Culture of Brazil.
2011_ BEST SHORT FILM for LTDN Dimas 5
minutes, Salvador, Brazil.
2010_ BRASIL ARTE CONTEMPORANEA PRIZE,
Biennial of São Paulo Foundation, Brazil.
2009_ PRIZE WINNER, IV Inter-American Video
Art Biennial IDB Cultural Center, Washington DC, USA.
2008_ BEST DOCUMENTARY for TERRORISTA,
Vitoria Cine Video Festival, Brazil.
2007_ COMMISSIONING for PROJECT K_LAB,
Italian Research Council/CNR/IBIMET, MAE, the Italian Agency, Niger.
2007_ BEST DOCUMENTARY for TACCONE Levante
Film Festival, Italy.
2007_ BEST DOCUMENTARY for TACCONE Festival
Scrittura e immagine, Pescara, Italy.
2006_ BEST SHORT FILM CONTRAMÃO Circolo
Antonio Ricci Award, Ravenna, Italy.
2006_ BEST SHORT FILM CONTRAMÃO – best work
on precarious labour, Rome, Italy.
2006_ Petrobras
Cultural PRIZE for digital work,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2005_ VIDEOINSTALLATION COMMISSIONING - MADE
IN BRAZIL, Italy.
2005_ BEST SHORT FILM CONTRAMÃO Premio
dell’Alta Marea Anconetana – Italy.
2005_ MACRO FUTURE, VIDEO INSTALLATION
COMMISSIONING (MONTAGE X), Italy.
2005_ SPECIAL AWARD for MOTOBOY Mediterranean
Film Festival Paestum, Italy.
2005_ BEST DOCUMENTARY for MOTOBOY Morbegno
Film Festival, Italy
2005_ Special
Jury Award for MOTOBOY Festival Scrittura e immagine, Pescara, Italy.
2005_ Special
Jury Award for MOTOBOY Torino Film Festival, Turin, Italy.
2004_ BEST FILM ON EMIGRATION Festival I
Zoimma, Copertino, Italy.
2004_ SPECIAL JURY AWARD BRESCELLO PROGETTO
CINEMA, Italy.
2004_ SPECIAL JURY AWARD CACHORRO LOUCO
Cortopotere Festival, Bergamo, Italy.
2004_
Troféu Guarnicê BEST EDITING for CACHORRO LOUCO, São Luís, Brazil.
2004_ SPECIAL JURY AWARD CACHORRO LOUCO Alta
Marea Anconetana Prize, Italy
2004_ BEST FILM CACHORRO LOUCO Corto per
Scelta Film Festival, Italy.
2004_ BEST DIGITAL WORK E-MOVIE AWARD for
ROMEVIDEO Festival Arcipelago, Italy.
2004_ SPECIAL AWARD Nastri D'argento 1997 for
SOGNI DI CUOIO, SNGCCI (Italian critics and cinema journalists Association).
2003_ RECYCLART VIDEO INSTALLATION
COMMISSIONING, Brussels, Belgium.
2002_ Petrobras
Cultural PRIZE for digital work,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002_ BRAZILIAN MINISTERY OF CULTURE
COMMISSIONING, Digital Media, Brazil.
2002_ BEST DOCUMENTARY at 3rd INTERNATIONAL
SHORTFILM FEST, Terni, Italy.
2002_ BEST FILM for Sem Terra at V Inventa un film festival, Lenola, Italy.
2002_ BEST ORIGINAL IDEA at V Inventa un film
festival, Lenola, Italy.
2002_ BEST EDITING at V Inventa un film
festival, Lenola, Italy.
2002_ BEST FILM for Sem Terra at 53rd Valdarno Festival, Italy.
2002_ FESTIVAL OF FESTIVALS PRIZE, 6th
Festival Cine Video, Curitiba, Brazil.
2002_ BEST VIDEO at 3rd QUARGNIENTO FILM
FESTIVAL, Alessandria, Italy.
2002_ BEST FILM at 20th ITALIAN INDEPENDENT
CINEMA PREVIEW, Italy.
2002_ BEST DOCUMENTARY for Sem Terra, BERGAMO FILM FESTIVAL,
Italy.
2002_ SPECIAL MENTION CORTOMIRANTE, Trani,
Italy.
2002_ SPECIAL PRIZE LIBERO BIZZARRI DOC
FESTIVAL, S. B. del Tronto, Italy.
2002_ BEST VIDEO for Sem Terra 11° VIDEOFESTIVAL di Canzo, Italy.
2002_ JURY AWARD FOR DOCUMENTARY QUALITY -
FIATI CORTI – Istrana Treviso, Italy.
2002_ BEST FILM AT II GENERAZIONI IN MOVIMENTO,
Siena, Italy.
2001_ MASSIMO TROISI EUROPEAN PRIZE 2001 for
SENZA TERRA, Italy.
2001_ SPECIAL PRIZE for director 4th MASSIMO
TROISI EUROPEAN PRIZE, Italy.
2001_ BEST DOCUMENTARY 4th VIDEOFESTIVAL CITTA’ DI MESTRE, Venice,
Italy.
2001_ AUDIENCE AWARD at 3rd VIDEOPOLIS,
Vicenza, Italy.
2001_ BEST DOCUMENTARY at 33rd OPERE NUOVE, Bolzano, Italy.
2001_ BEST DOCUMENTARY at 10TH Visionaria
International Video Festival, Siena, Italy.
2000_ BEST EDITING, XXX Opere Nuove Film
Festival for "Se un Giorno Qualcuno", Italy.
2000_SPECIAL MENTION III Letojanni
independent video festival, Italy.
2000_ BEST DIGITAL VIDEO IV Cortocinema
Shortfilm Festival, Italy.
2000_ BEST PHOTOGRAPHY Kodak Prize IV
Cortocinema Festival, Rome, Italy.
1999_ PREMIO DI QUALITÀ for the editing of
the feature film “Gostanza da Libbiano”.
1997_ SPECIAL MENTION Nastri D'argento 1997,
for the short film PUNTI DE VISTA by the Italian critics and cinema journalists
Association (SNGCCI), Italy.
1995_ ART PROJECT (Italian nomination) for
the European Pépiniéres Prize for Young artists, "4X4"
video-installation, France.
1992-1993_ GRANT MAE - Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Italy.
1991-1992_ GRANT CSC - Centro Sperimentale di
Cinematografia, Cinecittà, Italy.
1990_ FUJI FILM AWARD, commissioning for the
shortfilm "2984", BAFTA - British Academy of film and TV arts -
students, London, UK.
1985-1986_ SCHOLARSHIP FAAP - Fundação
Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.
1985_ ACQUISITION PRIZE for the installation
"Re-Ceita", XVII ANUAL DE ARTES PLASTICAS DA FAAP, MAB - Museu de
Arte Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil.
1984_ AWARD Kodak/Fotoptica award for
audiovisual "Museum", Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.
[FURTHER EDUCATION]
1997_ Digital Cinema workshop - Cinecittà
Holding, Rome, Italy.
1995_ Editing AVID technology workshop -
Zumar, Milan, Italy.
1994_ Win Wenders lecture, Centro
Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy.
1992_ Bernardo Bertolucci lecture, Centro
Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy.
1992_ Martin Scorsese lecture, Centro Sperimentale
di Cinematografia, Italy.
1992_ Video editing workshop Sony Italy BVE
9100 - Cinecittà, Rome, Italy.
1991_ The screenplay structure course -
Robert McKee, International Forum, Rome, Italy.
1991_ Spike Lee lecture, Centro Sperimentale
di Cinematografia, Italy.
1991_ Marco Bellocchio lecture, Centro Sperimentale
di Cinematografia, Italy.
1991_ Ettore Scola lecture, Centro Sperimentale
di Cinematografia, Italy.
1991_ Lina Wertmuller lecture, Centro Sperimentale
di Cinematografia, Italy.
1991_ Nanni Moretti lecture, Dipartimento
dello Spettacolo, Italy.
1991_ Photography lecture with Giuseppe
Rotunno, CSC, Italy.
1991_ Editing workshop with Pietro Scalia, CSC,
Italy.
1991-92_ Editing course with Roberto
Perpignani, CSC, Italy.
1991-92_ Editing course with Mauro Bonanni,
CSC, Italy.
1991_ Editing workshop with Nino Baragli CSC, Italy.
1990_ Derek Jarman lecture, Riverside
Studios, UK.
1990_ Atom Egoyan lecture, Riverside Studios,
UK.
1989_ The screenwriters craft workshop by
Elisa Fitzgerald - London University, UK.
1989_ Directing Actors workshop - London
filmmakers Coop, London, UK.
1989_ Lighting Cameraman workshop - London
filmmakers Coop, London, UK.
1987-8_ Advanced Photography course with
Geoffrey Ireland Central School of Art and design, London, UK.
1987-8_ Experimental Painting course with Roy
Marsden - Sir John Cass Foundation, London, UK.
1988_ First Certificate in English Diploma -
University of Cambridge, London, UK.
1986_ Cinema technology elements workshop – MIS, São Paulo, Brazil.
1984_ Greek Classic Art History course -
SESI, São Paulo, Brazil.
1984_ Photography workshop with João Musa -
Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo,
Brazil.
1984_ The book’s aesthetics workshop with
Julio Plaza – ECA University of São Paulo, Brazil.
1984_ University cultural extension course: Modern
Art Movement in São Paulo, Brazil.
1976-81_ English course, Cultura Inglesa, São
Paulo, Brazil.