World Cinema Amsterdam | Internationaal filmfestival | 18 – 27 Augustus 2016

Marcelo Machado

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Marcelo MACHADO (1958, São Paulo, Brazil) began his career in 1981 when he established the Electronic Video Look (Olhar Eletrônico Vídeo), a pioneering production company for independent productions. He co-directed  several experimental videos. He worked for TV Gazeta, a Brasilian TV channel and MTV Brazil. Since 2007 Marcelo worked on the research and the survey of conditions for the production of the feature film TROPICÁLIA, in which he meticulously portrays the exciting era of Brazilian popular music in the sixties and seventies. During this period he also co-directed the documentary VERSE.
FILMOGRAPHY – DOCUMENTARIES
2012 Tropicália
2011 O sarau uma usina de sonhos em Dois Córregos (The Soirée - A Dream Factory in Dois Córregos)
2009 O apito do trem (The Train Whistle)
2008 Viagem ao Anhui (Trip to Anhui)
2007 Oscar Niemeyer, o arquiteto da invenção (Oscar Niemeyer, the Architect of Invention)
2006 Pure Spirit of Brasil
2005 Ginga: a alma do futebol brasileiro (Ginga: The Soul of Brasilian Football)
1986 Olhar eletrônico
Biography
Marcelo Machado (1958, São Paulo, Brazil) began his career in 1981 when he established the Electronic Video Look (Olhar Eletrônico Vídeo), a pioneering production company for independent productions. He co-directed  several experimental videos. He worked for TV Gazeta, a Brasilian TV channel and MTV Brazil. Since 2007 Marcelo worked on the research and the survey of conditions for the production of the feature film Tropicália, in which he meticulously portrays the exciting era of Brazilian popular music in the sixties and seventies. During this period he also co-directed the documentary Verse.

Filmography
Documentaires
2012 Tropicália
2011 O sarau uma usina de sonhos em Dois Córregos (The Soirée - A Dream Factory in Dois Córregos)
2009 O apito do trem (The Train Whistle)
2008 Viagem ao Anhui (Trip to Anhui)
2007 Oscar Niemeyer, o arquiteto da invenção (Oscar Niemeyer, the Architect of Invention)
2006 Pure Spirit of Brasil
2005 Ginga: a alma do futebol brasileiro (Ginga: The Soul of Brasilian Football)
1986 Olhar eletrônico