Kleber Mendonça Filho

Director, producer and film critic. He majored in journalism in the Universidad Federal of Penambuco. He started his career as a film critic and journalist and started writing for journals such as Jornal do Commercio y Folha of S. Paulo as well as for magazines such as Continente and Cinética, as well as writing for his own site CinemaScópio. As a director, he experimented with ficition, documentaries and music videos in the nineties. He started his ventures in digital 35 mm film at the beginings of the 2000, filming several shortfilms, among them A Menina do Algodão (co-directed with Daniel Bandeira, 2002), Eletrodoméstica (2005), Noite de Sexta Manhã de Sábado (2006), and Recife Frio (2009), as well as a feature documentary, Crítico (2008). Mendoça has received more than 120 awards in Brazil and abroad, with selections in festivals like New York, Copenhage and Canne, as well as Rotterdadm, Toullouse and Santa Maria da Feira, where his restrospectives have been shown. He has been a cinema programer for the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation.

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