As a filmmaker, please introduce yourself and let us know why you became a filmmaker?

I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and I’ve a Bachelor Degree in Advertising. In early 70’s, in Brazilian TV, we had a lot of American shows and films on air. I remember watching “The Twilight Zone” and Roger Corman’s B movies, and I started to read the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Later on I was infatuated watching Robert Wise’s “The Haunting” (1963) and “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951), and with the 80’s masterpiece “The Shining” directed by Stanley Kubrick. Still in the 80’s, I started to study acting and played as an actor in a Brazilian feature film entitled “Baixo Gavea” (1986) with well-known Brazilian actors. In this experience I discovered the “filmmaking set” and I fell in love to be behind the camera. In 1988, I wrote, produced and directed my first short film, “Os Herdeiros do Solar The Usher” (The Heirs of the House of Usher), based on two tales of Edgar Allan Poe with a famous Brazilian actress/TV performer Elke Maravilha. This 40 minutes short film is part of the book "80's The Gold Decade Of The Horror Movie" 2011, written by the Italian Matteo Tortora and was officially selected to Rio International Film Festival 88. Since then I’m consistently working as a filmmaker, director and producer.

Give us some more information about the films you have made so far, about your experience.

After my first short film, from 89 to 93, I directed 4 short movies based on writers such as the French writer Guy de Maupassant and the Brazilian writer Caio Fernando Abreu with well-known TV’s Brazilian actors. This film was selected in several film festivals. Still in the 90’s, I directed two successful TV Series for Globo TV Network and made 7 short films/TV movies. I started teaching in the acting classes throughout Brazil with the sponsor of FUNARTE Brazilian Foundation of Art). I’ve been honored in 1997 with a Retrospective of my filmmaking at Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil (Bank of Brazil Cultural Center). In 2000 I was invited to be Artistic Director for the Cisneros TV Group moving to Miami where I had some acting lectures in workshops in Portuguese, Spanish and English and produced and directed a Spanish-spoken independent TV Movie. Back to Brazil I’ve been developing co-productions with Croatia and US making the feature film “RGB:RedGreenBlue” in 2005 and the English-spoken short film “The Meeting” in 2009. I have received many awards for my filmmaking both in Brazil and abroad.