Jorge Furtado was born in 1959 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In the formation of partially self-taught, he studied medicine, psychology, biology, journalism and fine arts, and did not complete any of the courses. He began his ... (Full Biography Below)
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Jorge Furtado was born in 1959 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In the formation of partially self-taught, he studied medicine, psychology, biology, journalism and fine arts, and did not complete any of the courses. He began his professional career in the early 1980's, the Educational TV of rio grande do sul, where he was a reporter, presenter, editor, writer, and producer. In 1982, he was one of the founders of the weekly "Quizumba", which mixed fiction and documentary in a language that's quite daring for television to the public of the time. From 1984 to 1986, he was the director of the Museum of Social Communication in Porto Alegre, brazil. During this same period, José Pedro, Goulart, and Ana Luiza Azevedo, who created the company in Light of the Productions, with which he made his first two short films, and produced by the theater. Since 1986 he has worked in advertising, having directed dozens of commercials for television until the 1990s. In 1987, he was one of the founding members of the Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre, brazil, which is a part of today. During the period from the commencement of the Act of Walking, he reached a great success of audience and critics, with the films of The day Dorival faced the guard (1986), Barbosa (1988), and, especially, the Island of Flowers (1989), which has received numerous national and international awards, including the Berlin film Festival. Since 1990 he has worked as a scriptwriter for TV Globo, in general, is associated with the nucleus, of Guel Arraes, with whom he wrote and eventually directed a number of mini-series, and dozens of specials. In 2002, he debuted as a director in feature films with a-There was a time two summers now. But it was the second long one, The man who copied them, they came to a large crowd (more than 600 thousand tickets sold in the cinemas and has received a number of awards, including the Grand Prize for Cinema in Brazil, the best brazilian film of the year 2003. He taught various courses in scriptwriting for the cinema and television, in partnership with their colleagues in the House of Cinema (1989, 1990) and / or individually, in the Festival de inverno de Ouro Preto (1993 to 1995) at the Banco do Brasil Cultural center (1997), and in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television de San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (1999). Festivals in a number of countries have carried out reviews and testimonials on the works of Jorge Furtado: in Hamburg (1994), Rotterdam (1995), São Paulo (1997), Santa Maria da Feira, (1998), In Goiânia, brazil (2002), Toulouse (2004), Paris, france (2005), London (2006) and Brussels (2006). At the end of march 2008, the Harvard Film Archive, which is connected to the at Harvard University, organized the exhibition "George Furtado''s Porto Alegre, with 2 long and 7 short ones. She has three sons: Peter, Julia, and Alice.
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