Andrucha Waddington (Directing)
Little is known about Andrucha Waddington, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Vitória
Inspired by a real woman, who filmed for two years, hidden, the routine of drug dealers on Ladeira dos Tabajaras, in Copacabana, in 2004. At the time, the material was passed on to the police, who opened an investigation and carried out an operation that resulted in in the arrest of more than 30 people, including military police involved with the gang.
Release Date:2025-03-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Praia dos Ossos
Release Date:2025-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Fuse
After two middle class teenagers commit a horrific crime, their parents debate whether they should protect their loved ones or let them face the consequences for their actions.
Release Date:2024-10-04
Department:Production
Job:Producer
The End
‘The End’ chronicles the passing of time in friendships and romances. The story is told through the memories of five friends who have partaken of the pleasures of youth in Rio de Janeiro, from the glamorous 1960s to the colorful 1980s. The five get together at the funeral of the most beloved of them, in the early 1990s. Adapted from the best-selling novel by award-winning actress and writer Fernanda Torres. The author herself has adapted the novel for television, diving into profound issues, such as aging and death. Always with Torres’ own celebrated brand of elegant, witty humor. The cast features a number of award-winning, household Brazilian actors.
Release Date:2023-10-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:7
Adriana Varejão: Between Flesh and Oceans
Documentary about the work of Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão. With images collected over several years, scenes that pass through Inhotim —where there is her permanent gallery— Ouro Preto, Salvador, Bahia’s Recôncavo, Hong Kong, USA and Portugal; places chosen because they have a strong connection with the narrative of her work, the film reveals the creative process, the connections established and the many references present in the work of this unique artist.
Release Date:2023-10-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Rock In Rio – A História
Release Date:2022-08-02
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:1
Gil Family
Follows one of the most famous families in Brazilian music during the creation of an unprecedented concert, which will bring together all generations of the Gils on stage for the first time.
Release Date:2022-06-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:2
Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat
The special brings the continuation of the plot starring Gilda and Lúcia in the series 'Amor e Sorte'. After a period of forced coexistence due to social isolation, they face a new reality.
Release Date:2020-12-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Anitta: Made in Honório
Release Date:2020-12-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:13
Amor e Sorte
‘Amor e Sorte’ is a four-episode independent series that brings together stories about relationships and transformation in times of social isolation.
Release Date:2020-09-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:5
O Juízo
Augusto moves with his family to an abandoned farm, inherited from his grandfather, hoping to put his life back on track. The property, however, carries the karma of the betrayal of the slave Couraça who seeks revenge against Augusto's family.
Release Date:2019-12-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Vai Anitta
Go behind the scenes with Brazilian superstar Anitta as the singer reveals how she's consolidating her international career.
Release Date:2018-11-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:9
Chacrinha: O Velho Guerreiro
The story of José Abelardo Barbosa, narrated from the time of his youth, when he was at medical school, and dropped everything to become a radio announcer. After that, we follow the transformation of his life and the creation of his alter ego, Chacrinha.
Release Date:2018-10-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:30
Acabou Chorare Novos Baianos se Encontram
Release Date:2017-11-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
VIVA - The opening Ceremony Documentary of Rio 2016
For the first time ever, experience the work of a nation as it host the world and puts on a show like never before.
Release Date:2017-09-07
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Under Pressure
Inside a chaotic emergency room in Rio de Janeiro, a team of doctors are torn between their internal personal conflicts, the difficulties of the profession and the surprising dramas behind each patient‘s history, in a heroic attempt to save lives...See more
Release Date:2017-07-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:57
Vote Count:15
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.
Release Date:2017-03-31
Character:Self
Party Crashers 2
The quartet of coup plotters is back, but before they need to resolve some minor internal disagreements, since Marco has struck a blow at his best friend, Beto, who, desolate, stops at a psychiatric clinic. It is up to Laura and Nelson to help him out of the institution.
Release Date:2017-01-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:27
Under Pressure
Over a tense day in the emergency hospital, we follow the surgeon's work Evandro and staff in three cases that require risk surgery: a drug dealer, a military police officer and a rich family child, all injured during a shootout in a slum next to the hospital.
Release Date:2016-11-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:32
Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World
With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of “The Girl from Ipanema,” Rio de Janiero welcomed the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a serious message underlying the celebration: Let’s take care of our planet.
Release Date:2016-08-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, André Midani — An Insider’s Story of Brazilian Music (2015) explores Brazilian music throughout his five-decade career through informal gatherings and jam sessions at his home, featuring Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben Jor, Gilberto Gil, and Marisa Monte, among other luminaries of the industry.
Release Date:2015-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Rio, I Love You
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
Release Date:2014-09-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:43
Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo
Release Date:2014-09-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Party Crashers
"Party Crashers" chronicles the amusing encounter between Marco Polo (Marcelo Adnet), a Copacabana trickster, and Beto (Eduardo Sterblitch), a shy and insecure man, on the New Year's Eve in Rio. Together they crash parties and create a lot of confusion in search of the beautiful Laura.
Release Date:2012-11-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:87
Lope: The Outlaw
A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of Theater in the 16th century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theater world when a producer's beautiful daughter takes a shine to him. They embark on a passionate affair as his plays begin to win popular acclaim.
Release Date:2010-09-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:29
Critic
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Release Date:2008-01-22
Character:Self
Vote Count:19
Maria Bethânia: Pedrinha de Aruanda
A unique and intimate portrait of singer Maria Bethania, that starts at the artist’s 60th birthday, celebrated during a concert in El Salvador and a Mass in Santo Amaro, her hometown, in 2006. In the same house where she spent her childhood and adolescence, and beside her mother, Dona Canô, and brother Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia tells us her own story and about the tunes that followed her throughout her life.
Release Date:2007-09-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
The House of Sand
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Release Date:2005-05-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:49
Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in December 2002. The film documents the group's live performances, rehearsals and interviews.
Release Date:2003-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Viva São João!
Composer Gilberto Gil accompanies filmmaker Andrucha Waddington to the Northeast of Brazil. Among the rural communities in the region, Gil and Waddignton participate in the Catholic celebration of Saint John's Day with music and dance. Waddington also analyzes the suffering of the population trying to survive through agriculture in difficult terrain.
Release Date:2002-06-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls his artistic trajectory, recalls striking facts and reveals some intimacies. Completely filmed on film, it includes great successes of the artist like Madalena, Cores Vivas, Vamos Fugir, Procissão and Expresso 2222.
Release Date:2002-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Bufo & Spallanzani
Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.
Release Date:2001-08-31
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:8
Me, You, Them
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Release Date:2000-08-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:43
Twins
Identical twins Iara and Marilena like to play games and deceive men by pretending to be each other. But when they fall in love with the same man, a rivalry with devastating and horrifying consequences begins.
Release Date:1999-04-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
Paralamas em Close Up
"A journey within the brazilian rock history, having as guide the band Paralams do Sucesso. Interviews with Jorge Ben Jor, Evandro Mesquita, Roberto Frejat, Kid Abelha, Roger, Arnaldo Antunes and others."
Release Date:1998-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Untitled Fernanda Montenegro Documentary
Documentary about Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro. The first South American and the first Latin American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Savage Capitalism
Elisa is a journalist who becomes romantically involved with Hugo, a director of the company Jota Mineração, when she receives an order to write a story about the company. However, the relationship between the two begins to destabilize when the company that Hugo runs begins to extract gold from indigenous lands.
Release Date:1994-02-01
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:4
João & Antônio
A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Release Date:1992-12-29
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vini Jr.
The documentary will focus on Vinicius Jr's career so far, touching upon the ups and downs of playing at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Alguém na Multidão
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Bajo presión
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:1