Ana Luíza Azevedo

Ana Luiza Nunes Azevedo (born 24 November 1959) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Azevedo graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul with a degree in fine arts in 1986; she is a member of Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre. She was assistant director of several feature films, by directors such as Jorge Furtado, Carlos Gerbase, and Carlos Reichenbach. As a screenwriter and director, she has made short films and television specials, having won awards at various national and international festivals. Her film "Três Minutos" was the only Brazilian representative in the competition of short films at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. At the end of 2007, she directed her first feature film, Antes Que o Mundo Acabe, based on the book by Marcelo Carneiro da Cunha, which was presented and awarded at some festivals, even before its commercial release, in May 2010. Between 2008 and 2009, Azevedo directed eight episodes of the series Fantasias de um Housewife for RBS TV. Azevedo worked on the pre-production of Mulher de Fases, a comedy series based on a book by Cláudia Tajes, which aired in 2011 on HBO Brasil. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ana Luíza Azevedo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

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Release Date:2024-07-18

Department:Directing

Job:Series Director

Episode Count:8

3.8

Vai Dar Nada

Kelson is a young worker who uses his motorcycle to escape the police and win Neide's love. He buys a new motorcycle from swindler Fernando, without knowing that it belonged to a dangerous drug dealer, who got out of prison and now wants it back.

Release Date:2022-05-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

7.3

Through Ernesto's Eyes

Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl.

Release Date:2019-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

E se Cale

The young poet Cristal Rocha, winner of the Slam Brasil 2017 circuit, reflects on what Censorship means for the Brazilian peripheral black population.

Release Date:2018-10-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

7.2

Rend Your Heart

40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.

Release Date:2018-10-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:13

5.5

Quem É Primavera das Neves

Release Date:2017-04-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

7.0

Filme Sobre um Bom Fim

Bom Fim, in Porto Alegre, was a stronghold of the youth movement that took place between the 1970s and 1980s. The trajectory of the place is revisited through interviews with musicians and artists who lived those golden years.

Release Date:2015-08-19

Vote Count:1

Sweet Mother
4.5

Sweet Mother

Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends. Sweet Mother illustrates the everyday life of the elderly with clarity and levity, and shows that youth actually starts at 80. In the role that earned her the 2013 International Emmy® Awards for Best Actress, Fernanda Montenegro adds another success to her list of characters, which includes an Oscar nomination for the film Central Station.

Release Date:2014-01-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:14

Vote Count:2

Meu Pai

Álvaro, 12 years old, is the only child of separated parents. He is in a phase of many doubts and concerns. He wants to grow up soon, but did his father take too long to grow up? What did the father do with the girls? It's difficult to ask, Alvaro's father has a strange way of saying things.

Release Date:2014-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

8.7

Sweet Mother

Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.

Release Date:2012-12-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:16

10.0

Homens de Bem

Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.

Release Date:2011-12-29

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:1

5.9

Before the World Ends

The countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a crush on his girlfriend Mim, who has just broken up with him but is still his friend, and his best friend, Lucas, is one of the best students in São Lucas High-School. Daniel is the son of Elaine and the photographer Daniel, who left Elaine when she was pregnant and moved alone to Thailand. Daniel is raised by Elaine and his stepfather Antônio, and shares a house with his half-sister, Maria Clara. One day, Daniel receives a letter from his biological father, who has malaria, and he is reluctant to open the envelope.

Release Date:2010-08-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Decamerão: A Comédia do Sexo

Decamerão: A Comédia do Sexo

Release Date:2009-07-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

BerlinBall

In Campina Grande, State of Paraíba, Brazil, kids dream of playing soccer in a city called Berlin. They want to become a new Marcelinho Paraíba, a player for Hertha Berlin.

Release Date:2006-02-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

3.8

Sal de Prata

After her boyfriend's death, a successful executive finds some unfinished scripts in the dead man's computer, and decides to make a film of them. Her relationship with the world of movie-making is going to change her life.

Release Date:2005-09-23

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:2

6.1

My Uncle Killed a Guy

Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory.

Release Date:2004-12-12

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:162

6.0

Dona Cristina Perdeu a Memória

Antônio, an 8-year-old boy, discovers that his neighbor Cristina, 80, tells different stories about her life, the names of her relatives and the saints of the day. And Mrs. Cristina believes that Antônio can help her recover her lost memory.

Release Date:2002-08-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

7.8

3 Minutes

Three minutes. The time to leave a message. Passing the baton and run 1600 meters. To cook an egg. The time to make a decision that can change your life.

Release Date:1999-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Sexo & Beethoven - O Reencontro

Two straight (but not really) guys invite two naive (but not really) prostitutes for a night of sex. In the preliminary conversations, a little poetry, a lot of philosophy and heavy doses of vulgarity, all with Beethoven in the background. But when it comes to sex, the truth comes out.

Release Date:1997-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Um Homem Sério

Hilário Pestana, the most famous, funniest and, ironically, saddest Brazilian actor, has died. He has passed through many stages of Brazilian cinema: the chanchadas, the Vera Cruz classics, the pornochanchadas, and even experimental movies. He was beloved by the public and had a gift for laughter, but he only desired to be a serious man.

Release Date:1996-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

8.0

Estrada

Release Date:1995-01-02

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:1

Ventre Livre

A 1994 documentary about reproduction rights in Brazil, highlighting the cases of politicians that trade tubal ligation surgeries for votes and the issue of abortion.

Release Date:1994-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

7.8

This Is Not Your Life

Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.

Release Date:1991-01-02

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2

O Vampiro de Novo Hamburgo

Mockumentary on a German moviemaker and an old vampire film in Southern Brazil.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

O Corpo de Flávia

A fifteen-year-old girl is beaten by her father and seeks shelter at a friend's house. Between tears and sobs, she watches her friend's father. He feels sorry for a child, but she is a woman. Tonight, they will have to discover the difference between passion and compassion.

Release Date:1990-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

8.1

Isle of Flowers

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

Release Date:1989-09-06

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:212

6.2

Barbosa

Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career.

Release Date:1988-06-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

7.4

The Day Dorival Faced the Guards

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison.

Release Date:1986-04-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:19

Obscenidades

A bourgeois housewife's life is shaken by a series of anonymous letters that she periodically receives, increasingly obscene. At first, she believes the sender to be a complete stranger, then she begins to suspect her husband's friends. But she doesn't dare talk to her husband about the letters or their contents: she remains anxious, thinking about suicide, and always waiting for the postman.

Release Date:1986-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Temporal

In the same house, on the same night, two groups meet. One, made up of very serious gentlemen, members of a religious-monarchist order. The other, a bunch of crazy people in animal costumes, at a party with sex and rock’n’roll. When the storm starts and the lights go out, anything can happen.

Release Date:1984-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

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