Alice de Andrade

Alice de Andrade was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 19th 1964, daughter of Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (Macunaíma, O Padre e a Moça, etc) and Sarah de Castro Barbosa. With easy access to Brazilian cinema milieu, she worked as assistant director in films by Murilo Salles, John Boorman, Ruy Guerra, Walter Lima Jr, André Téchiné, Olivier Assayas and her own father. She won a grant to study in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San António de los Baños in Cuba. Before her feature-film début as director in 2004, she made 10 short and medium-length films in Brazil (including the 1994 award-winning "Dente por Dente"), Cuba ("Luna de Miel", award-winner at the 1993 Havana Film Festival), Burkina Faso ("Le Pari Burkinabé") and France, where she has also lived for a while. Her feature début as director was "O Diabo a Quatro", a Brazilian-French-Portuguese-Swiss co-production, filmed in 2002 and released in 2004, winner of a Special Jury Award at the Brasília Film Festival.