Jorge Furtado

Works
Birthday
1959-06-09

Jorge Furtado - Screenplay, Director, Writer, Associate Producer, Writers' Assistant, Book known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Lisbela and the Prisoner» (2003), «The Man Who Copied» (2003), «Meu Nome é Gal» (2023), «A Happy Family» (2024), «Great Sertão» (2024),

Jorge Alberto Furtado (born June 9, 1959) is a Brazilian film and television director and screenwriter.

Furtado attended university for courses in medicine, psychology, journalism, and arts, but did not graduate. He began his professional career in the 1980s on a local channel TVE-RS working as a reporter, presenter, editor, screenwriter, and producer. In 1982 created a TV show Quizumba, which mixed fiction and documentary with very audacious language for the Brazilian public television.

Between 1984 and 1986, Furtado was director of the museum Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito José da Costa in Porto Alegre. At the same time, with the help of José Pedro Goulart and Ana Luiza Azevedo, he created the company Luz Produções, where he made two short films and produced plays for theater. From 1986 to 1990, he made dozens of TV commercials.

In 1987, he was one of the founders of Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre, in which he still participates. In 1990, he worked on TV Globo making scripts for many TV series. In 2008, Harvard University promoted an exhibition of his films called "Jorge Furtado's Porto Alegre".

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The most significant works of Jorge Furtado

The Man Who Copied (2003)

Position: Director, Writer
Isle of Flowers (1989)

Position: Director, Screenplay
Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003)

Position: Screenplay
Basic Sanitation, the Movie (2007)

Position: Director, Writer
My Uncle Killed a Guy (2004)

Position: Director, Screenplay, Book
Felicidade É... (1995)

Position: Director
Meu Nome é Gal (2023)

Position: Associate Producer
Great Sertão (2024)

Position: Writer


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