Kleber Mendonça Filho
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 39
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- November 22, 1968
- Place of birth
- Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Also known as
- Kléber Mendoca FilhoKleber Mendonca FilhoKMFKleber de Mendonça Vasconcellos Filho
Biography
Kleber Mendonça Filho (born November 22, 1968) is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and producer. With a degree in Journalism from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Kleber Mendonça Filho began his career as a film critic and journalist. As a director, he experimented with fiction, documentary, and video clips in the 1990s. He migrated from video to digital and 35 mm film in the 2000s. Over the course of that decade, he made several short films. "O Som ao Redor" (Neighbouring Sounds, 2013) was Mendonça's first feature-length drama, winning numerous awards.
Mendonça's films have received more than 120 awards in Brazil and abroad, with selections in festivals such as New York, Copenhagen and Cannes (Quinzaine des réalisateurs). Film festivals in Rotterdam, Toulouse, and Santa Maria da Feira have presented retrospectives of his films. He has served as programmer of cinema for the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation.
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Filmography
Directing
24 titles
Writing
19 titlesUpcoming
2019
Production
17 titles2024
Camera
13 titles
Sound
12 titles2008
Editing
11 titlesUpcoming
2008
Acting
10 titles
2019
