Amilcar Monteiro Claro

Graduated in Cinematic Arts at the USP -University of São Paulo, went on to the UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles, and the SFAI - San Francisco Art Institute courses for direction for cinema and television. Writer, documentarist, director and producer, he participated in the making of around 70 movies, in various functions, which include important productions such as Kiss of the Spider-Woman, by Hector Babenco, Sonho de Valsa, by Ana Carolina, Além da Paixão, by Bruno Barreto, among others, and participated in 5 of 11 feature films by Roberto Santos, to whom he was a student, assistant and co-writer, and also paid homage to with the documentary Roberto, awarded 5 times in festivals. His short film, Náufrago, received 22 national and international awards, and so did Imensidade, another short film, which received another 5 awards. His latest productions include a feature film written, produced and directed by himself called Tríade - Galeria de Espelhos, which lies in final stages of production, 3 television series made for cable channel SESCTV, being those O Teatro Segundo Antunes Filho (6 episodes), Teatro & Circunstância (part 1 - 27 episodes) and Mirada (5 episodes), and a movie for television called Hygiene (again for SESCTV). Current projects are the nearly finished feature film Tríade - Galeria de Espelhos and the 2nd part of the series Teatro & Circunstância (28 episodes), also in final production stages. Among these activities, he also gives cinema classes around Brazil's cities.