André Klotzel

André Klotzel studied cinema at the University of São Paulo in the 70s. While in graduate school, he directed the first short films and simultaneously started to work professionally in feature films as an assistant in different positions (production, editing, photography). After finishing school, André Klotzel continued as assistant director (including two years with Nelson Pereira dos Santos), besides production coordinator in publicity films and participation in documentaries and short films. The first feature as writer and director, A Marvada Carne, was in Cannes Critics Week (1985), and won several prizes in Brazil. It was a critic success, and also had a substantial commercial result in Brazil, screened in other 10 countries. André founded, with three other colleagues, a production company called and from then on he always dedicated his time to produce films in the company, direct short-movies and TV films for others, besides trying to set up new individual projects, all alternately. His next movie, Capitalismo Selvagem, was made during a Brazilian cinema crisis and had funds coming from ZDF (Das Kleine Fernsehspiel) and Fond Sud (France). The third feature, Memórias Póstumas, was a period-film adapted from a Brazilian classical novel, which he produced, wrote, directed, and edited. The movie was in Berlin's Panorama and other international festivals, besides having national recognition among critics, prizes, and a fairly reasonable theatrical audience.