Daniel Rezende

Daniel Rezende (São Paulo, May 5, 1975) is a Brazilian filmmaker, editor and director. He gained prominence in 2002 when he edited the acclaimed film City of God, for which he was nominated for an Oscar for best editing and won the BAFTA for best editing.

Works

7.0

Na Ilha

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

Release Date2019-07-25

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

8.4

City of God

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Release Date2002-08-30

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count7690

Crossing the Line
6.0

Crossing the Line

The instigating universe of investigations in Rio de Janeiro, and an anti-hero police officer who dialogues with the rules imposed by the system. In each episode, a crime is investigated and solved, showing how the functioning of the city interconnects all types of residents and visitors.

Release Date2012-05-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

Mônica and Friends
8.7

Mônica and Friends

When popular Carminha Frufru's party is mysteriously sabotaged, Mônica and her friends become the main suspects, and they will need to overcome their insecurities and reveal their secrets to decipher the mystery.

Release Date2022-07-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count23

Nobody's Looking
6.6

Nobody's Looking

A new guardian "angelus" uncovers a secret behind the Angelus System's bureaucracy that leads him to break its official rules about protecting humans.

Release Date2019-11-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count30

Mônica and Friends: Origins
7.0

Mônica and Friends: Origins

Mônica, Magali, Milena, Cebolinha, Cascão and Milena meet at a hotel in Limoeiro, but they have to overcome a competition and their personal issues to create Turma da Mônica.

Release Date2024-10-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count3

The Man of Your Life

The Man of Your Life

Unemployed and disillusioned, Hugo goes to work at a dating agency, but ends up getting involved with conflicts customer personnel.

Release Date2017-01-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Franjinha e Milena em Busca da Ciência

Franjinha e Milena em Busca da Ciência

Release Date2024-02-27

DepartmentArt

JobSupervising Art Director

Episode Count8

5.9

RoboCop

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

Release Date2014-01-30

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count5592

8.1

Elite Squad

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

Release Date2007-10-12

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count2515

The Mechanism
7.1

The Mechanism

A scandal erupts in Brazil during an investigation of alleged government corruption via oil and construction companies. Loosely inspired by true events.

Release Date2018-03-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count124

7.8

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

Release Date2010-10-08

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count1913

6.7

The Tree of Life

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Release Date2011-05-17

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count3168

7.0

Chuck Billy and The Marvelous Guava Tree

Chuck Billy has spent his life picking guavas from Jed’s guava tree. But now that Dr. Agripino is going to build a road that will take down the tree, Chuck and his friends are going to do everything they can to stop it.

Release Date2025-01-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count70

5.8

7 Days in Entebbe

In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.

Release Date2018-03-15

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count421

7.4

The Motorcycle Diaries

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

Release Date2004-02-06

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count1330

6.5

Blindness

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Release Date2008-05-14

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count1297

5.7

Dark Water

Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. Dahlia is in the midst of divorce proceedings, and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences—and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom…

Release Date2005-07-08

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count1049

8.3

Monica and Friends: Lessons

In the sequel to Turma da Mônica: Laços, we follow Mônica, Jimmy Five, Maggy and Smudge dealing with the consequences of a mistake made at school. At the same time, they face transformations from childhood to adolescence and are about to discover the value of friendship.

Release Date2021-12-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count93

8.0

Bingo: The King of the Mornings

1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.

Release Date2017-08-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count396

7.1

City of Men

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

Release Date2007-08-31

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count284

7.7

Monica and Friends: Bonds

Fluffy, Jimmy Five's pet dog, vanished. He develops an infallible plan to rescue the little dog, but, he will need help from his faithful friends: Monica, Maggy and Smudge. Together, they will face challengers and live incredible adventures to get Fluffy back home.

Release Date2019-06-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count292

7.3

The Storytellers

A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.

Release Date2003-09-19

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count24

6.3

The Best Things in the World

Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries to make his way through life, with its first sexual experiences, his depressed brother and his self-centered parents. It’s a humorous homage to the pitfalls of daily life and the diversity of life.

Release Date2010-05-22

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count55

6.1

Invisible World

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

Release Date2012-10-29

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count10

4.7

The Story of Artigas

In 1884, the famous painter Juan Manuel Blanes, from Uruguay, is asked to create a portrait of José Artigas. There is only one drawing of his face, done in his old age so Blanes must imagine what he looked like by reading up on his ideas and learning about his life.

Release Date2011-07-29

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count6

Blackout

At the end of a tough workweek an assistant congressman and his friend go to an abandoned room in the Capitol building to relax and smoke a joint. While trying to unwind the assistant congressman complains about his job. He is doing all he can to cover up his boss' scandalous sex affair but nothing seems to be working. "Things can't get any worse", he proclaims. . . but they do!

Release Date2008-08-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

O Filho de Mil Homens

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Céu Inferior

Short film created for the 2012 anthology 'Mundo Invisível' (Invisible World).

Release Date2012-10-29

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

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