Emanuel Mendes

A director, producer and writer, Emanuel Mendes was born in countryside Minas Gerais and has been living in São Paulo since 1999. After graduating in Social Communication, in Ribeirão Preto, he studies Film in Los Angeles for a two-month period. He has worked as a production assistant in short films and feature films for Felistoque Filmes, besides having worked at Casablanca Finish, a post-production company in São Paulo. He debuted as a film director with the short "Assis & Aletéia" in 2002, inspired by the cinema of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. In 2008, he releases his second short, "Amarar". He founded Sincronia Filmes in 2011 and through it he has released the films "O Homem Que..." (The Man Who...) (2011), "É Quase Verdade" (It's Almost True) (2014) and the web series "Os Chorões" (The Criers) (2012). His style mixes up elements from the fantastic and the extraordinary inserted into the everyday lives of characters apparently ordinaries.