Jorge Furtado
- Directing
- June 9, 1959 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Biography
Jorge Alberto Furtado (born June 9, 1959) is a Brazilian film and television director and screenwriter. Furtado attended university for courses in medicine, psychology, journalism, and arts, but did not graduate. He began his professional career in the 1980s on a local channel TVE-RS working as a reporter, presenter, editor, screenwriter, and producer. In 1982 created a TV show Quizumba, which mixed fiction and documentary with very audacious language for the Brazilian public television. Between 1984 and 1986, Furtado was director of the museum Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito José da Costa in Porto Alegre. At the same time, with the help of José Pedro Goulart and Ana Luiza Azevedo, he created the company Luz Produções, where he made two short films and produced plays for theater. From 1986 to 1990, he made dozens of TV commercials. In 1987, he was one of the founders of Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre, in which he still participates. In 1990, he worked on TV Globo making scripts for many TV series. In 2008, Harvard University promoted an exhibition of his films called "Jorge Furtado's Porto Alegre". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jorge Furtado, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Muito Prazer · Director, Screenplay
- The Rogue's Trial (TV Series) · Writers' Assistant
- Virgínia e Adelaide · Writer, Director
- A Fábrica de Sonhos · Writer
- Família em Construção · Consulting Producer
- Grande Sertão · Writer, Creator
- The Rogue's Trial · Writers' Assistant
- Tô Nessa · Creator
- dr4g0n · Story Supervisor
- Great Sertão · Writer
- A Happy Family · Associate Producer
- Toll · Associate Producer
- Meu Nome é Gal · Associate Producer
- Luis Fernando Verissimo - O Filme
- O Debate · Writer
- Vai Dar Nada · Writer, Director
- Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat · Creator, Writer
- Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil · Writer
- Love and Luck · Writer, Creator
- Cretinália · Self, Writer
- All the Women in the World · Creator
- Through Ernesto's Eyes · Screenplay
- Rend Your Heart · Director, Writer
- Under Pressure · Writer, Creator
- Quem É Primavera das Neves · Self, Director
- Nothing Remains the Same · Writer, Creator
- O País do Cinema · Self
- Mister Brau · Creator
- True Beauty · Director, Screenplay
- Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Ó Paí, Ó - O Filme · Writer
- Good Luck · Screenplay
- The Staple of News · Director, Writer
- Sweet Mother · Writer, Director
- Sweet Mother · Director, Screenplay
- Até a Vista · Writer, Director
- The Screenwriter · Self
- Homens de Bem · Director, Writer
- Ilha das Flores: Depois Que A Sessão Acabou · Self
- Velázquez e a Teoria Quântica da Gravidade · Director, Writer
- The Invisible Woman · Writer
- Before the World Ends · Writer
- Decamerão: A Comédia do Sexo · Director
- Romance · Writer
- Ó Paí, Ó: A Série · Writer
- Critic · Self
- Basic Sanitation, the Movie · Writer, Director
- Rummikub · Screenplay, Director
- Antonia · Screenplay, Creator
- Inacreditável: A Batalha dos Aflitos · Self
- O Coronel e o Lobisomem · Writer
- My Uncle Killed a Guy · Screenplay, Director
- Fraternidade · Director
- Oscar Boz · Director, Writer
- Cena Aberta · Director, Screenplay
- Benjamim · Screenplay
- Lisbela and the Prisoner · Screenplay
- The Man Who Copied · Writer, Director
- Two Summers · Director, Writer
- City of Men · Writer
- Dona Cristina Perdeu a Memória · Writer
- Caramuru: Brazil Reinvented · Writer
- A Linguagem do Cinema
- Brava Gente · Director, Writer
- Tolerância · Writer
- A Invenção do Brasil · Creator
- The Sandwich · Writer, Director
- Luna Caliente · Director, Screenplay
- 3 Minutes · Writer
- Anchietanos · Director, Writer
- Ângelo Anda Sumido · Director, Writer
- Felicidade É... · Director
- Estrada · Director, Writer
- Suburbano Coração · Writer
- A Comédia da Vida Privada · Director, Writer
- Memorial de Maria Moura · Creator
- A Matadeira · Director, Screenplay
- Veja Bem · Director, Writer
- Black August · Writer, Creator
- O Alienista · Writer
- Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?