Director's bio-filmography

PEDRO URANO works in Brazil as cinematographer, producer and director. Among his recent works as cinematographer, two short films called attention: SUPERBARROCO (winner of Festival de Brasília 2008 and selected to the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes Festival in 2009) and MURO (awarded best short film in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes Festival and in the Vila do Conde Festival in 2008 /Portugal, among other awards).

Working as director, Pedro Urano took part in awarded documentaries like VULGO SACOPÃ (best short film in Porto Alegre IFF and in Brazilian Universitary Cinema FF, both in Brazil /2003) and O LATIDO DO CACHORRO ALTERA O PERCURSO DAS NUVENS (best experimental film in Rio de Janeiro ISFF 2005 and in Brazilian Universitary Cinema FF 2006, both in Rio de Janeiro). The premiere as director of feature length documentaries happened with ROYAL ROAD OF CACHAÇA (selected to the Critic’s Week of Locarno FF 2008 /Switzerland and awarded best documentary at Festival do Rio - Rio de Janeiro IFF 2008 and at Mar del Plata IFF 2008 /Argentine).

Throughout the years, Pedro built a strong relation with the visual arts, working together with artists like Tunga (as cinematographer in the short film CHIMERA, selected to the competitive section at Cannes Festival 2004 and Sundance 2006), Laura Erber (as cinematographer in the short film CARNET DU SERTAO and in various video installations), Marina Fraga (as producer of the short film SUMI, selected in DokLeipzig 2008 /Germany and DocumentaMadrid 09/Spain and awarded the jury’s special prize at Rio de Janeiro ISFF 2008/Brazil) and Tiago Rocha Pitta (as cinematographer in all the video installations and also as producer in the artist’s first short film ‘A TRILOGY’, in post-production stage). The documentary ‘THE HU ENIGMA’, selected in DOCTV IV (Brazilian governmental funding program to documentaries), is his most recent film as director and the first work in collaboration with the Brazilian visual artist Joana Traub Csekö.