Jorge Furtado

Jorge Furtado

Born: June 9, 1959
in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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".

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Movies for Jorge Furtado...

Cretinália
Title: Cretinália
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Short film by Jorge Furtado, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine.
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Quem É Primavera das Neves
Title: Quem É Primavera das Neves
Character: Ele mesmo
Released: April 22, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Screenwriter
Title: The Screenwriter
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.
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Crítico
Title: Crítico
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
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Inacreditável: A Batalha dos Aflitos
Title: Inacreditável: A Batalha dos Aflitos
Character: Himself
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentário que narra a trajetória do time de futebol gaúcho Grêmio em 2005, considerado um dos anos mais difíceis para o clube. Com depoimentos de torcedores - ilustres e desconhecidos -, jogadores e comissão técnica, a produção também conta com imagens inesquecíveis.
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A Linguagem do Cinema
Title: A Linguagem do Cinema
Released: March 15, 2001
Type: Movie
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Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
Title: Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
Released: July 11, 1991
Type: Movie