José Antonio Garcia

Director | Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 12/19/1955

Date of death : 12/22/2005

City of birth : São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

José Antonio Garcia (1955 - 2005) was a Brazilian filmmaker, member of the São Paulo cinema generation of the 1980s, known among São Paulo critics as the "New São Paulo Cinema". He's the director (with Ícaro Martins) of the so called "trilogy of desire", with O Olho Mágico do Amor (1981), Onda Nova (1983) and Estrela Nua (1985). His solo film, O Corpo (1991), based on the short story "A Via Crucis do Corpo", by Clarice Lispector, with Marieta Severo, Claudia Jimenez and Antonio Fagundes, won awards at the Brasilia (Brazil) and Cartagena (Colombia) Festivals.