Toni Venturi
- Directing
- November 21, 1955 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- May 18, 2024
Biography
Antônio Venturi Neto, better known as Toni Venturi, was a Brazilian film director. Graduated in photographic arts from the University of Ryerson, in Canada, and in cinema from the University of São Paulo (USP), Toni Venturi was president of the São Paulo Filmmakers Association (Apaci) in 2001. He directed the fiction features "Latitude Zero", by 2002, "Cabra-Cega", 2005, "Estamos Juntos", 2011, and "A Comédia Divina", 2017. He also directed the documentaries "O Velho – A História de Luiz Carlos Prestes" and "Rita Cadillac – A Lady do Povo”. He died in 2024, aged 68.
Known for
Filmography
- In My Skin · Self, Writer
- A Comédia Divina · Director, Producer
- João Gonçalves - Forte e Poderoso · Producer, Director
- Vocacional: Uma Aventura Humana · Director, Writer
- We're Together · Director
- Rita Cadillac: The Lady of the People · Director, Writer
- Paulo Freire Contemporâneo · Director
- Dia de Festa · Director
- Playing in the Dark · Director
- No Olho do Furacão · Writer, Director
- Latitude Zero · Director
- The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes · Director