|
2 Filhos De Francisco
''Two Sons of Francisco'' ( pt, Dois Filhos de Francisco) is a 2005 Brazilian drama film about the lives of the musicians Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano, directed by Breno Silveira. The film was one of Brazil's most successful in the last twenty years and the biggest box office draw of 2005. The film grossed the equivalent of $13 million worldwide, and a total of $8 million in Brazil, a record for Brazilian cinema. Until 2008, ''Dois Filhos de Francisco'' used to be considered the second biggest audience of a Brazilian film (after the 1976 film ''Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands''). In 2009, the blockbuster ''Se Eu Fosse Você 2'', starring Tony Ramos and Glória Pires, replaced ''Dois Filhos de Francisco'' as the second biggest audience among the Brazilian films. Cast * Márcio Kieling as Zezé di Camargo * Thiago Mendonça as Luciano Camargo * Ângelo Antônio as Seu Francisco Camargo * Dira Paes as D. Helena Camargo * Paloma Duarte as Zilú * José Dumont as Miranda * Dáblio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breno Silveira
Breno Silveira (5 February 1964 – 14 May 2022) was a Brazilian filmmaker noted for having directed ''Two Sons of Francisco'', the highest-grossing film of 2005. Early life and education Silveira was born in Brasília. He studied in Paris at the École Louis Lumière. Biography He worked as camera assistant in Suzana Amaral's 1985 film '' The Hour of the Star.'' In 1995 he worked as director of photography of Carla Camurati's '' Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil''. He did also the cinematography for the 2000 film, '' Me, You, Them'', directed by Andrucha Waddington. Silveira directed music videos for Marisa Monte, Os Paralamas do Sucesso and O Rappa, among other artists. His debut as filmmaker was with the 2005 biopic ''Two Sons of Francisco'', about the sertanejo duo Zezé di Camargo & Luciano. The film became a box office hit in Brazil, with more than five million viewers, becoming the highest-grossing film of the year. Other films directed by Silveira are '' Once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glória Pires
Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Morais (; born 23 August 1963) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her roles in TV Globo telenovelas such as '' Dancin' Days'', ''Vale Tudo'', ''Mulheres de Areia'' and ''O Rei do Gado''. She is also known for starring in films such as Academy Award-nominated '' O Quatrilho'', box-office hit '' If I Were You'' and its sequel, and ''Lula, Son of Brazil'', which is the second most expensive Brazilian film of all time, after ''Nosso Lar''. In 2013, she starred in the movie '' Reaching for the Moon'' along with Miranda Otto, and directed by Bruno Barreto. In 2013, she was also honoured by ''Forbes'' Brazil as one of Brazil's most influential persons being ranked in the 28th position out of the 30 short-listed. Biography Pires was born on 23 August 1963 in Rio de Janeiro. She is the daughter of producer Elza Pires and actor Antônio Carlos Pires. She has a sister named Linda Pires, a therapist. She is of Native Brazilian and Portuguese des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Biographical Drama Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Artist Awards
The Young Artist Award (originally known as the Youth in Film Award) is an accolade presented by the Young Artist Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1978 to honor excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically disabled or financially unstable. First presented in 1979, the Young Artist Awards was the first organization established to specifically recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 18 in the fields of film, television, theater, and music. The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/ 1979 season. Young Artist Association The Young Artist Association (originally known as the Hollywood Women's Photo and Press Club, and later, the Youth in Film Association) is a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to recognize and award excellence of youth performers, and to provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana Film Festival
The Havana Film Festival is a Cuban festival that focuses on the promotion of Latin American filmmakers. It is also known in Spanish as ''Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana,'' and in English as International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana. It takes place every year during December in the city of Havana, Cuba. History The inaugural International Festival of New Latin American Cinema was held on December 3, 1979, and more than 600 film directors of Latin America responded to the first call made by the Cuban Institute of the Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC). Its founders included ICAIC president Alfredo Guevara, and the filmmakers Julio García Espinosa and Pastor Vega. As expressed in its founding convocation, the festival aimed to "promote the regular meeting of Latin American filmmakers who with their work enrich the artistic culture of our countries (…); ensure the joint presentation of fiction films, documentaries, car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leandro E Leonardo
Leandro e Leonardo were a Brazilian '' sertanejo'' duo. The two brothers (third and fourth of eight siblings), Leandro (born Luiz José da Costa, August 15, 1961–June 23, 1998) and Leonardo (Emival Eterno da Costa, born July 25, 1963), were from Goianápolis. History The brothers were raised in a poor family in Brazil, and from a young age worked with their parents on tomato farms and did odd jobs such as shining shoes. Emival convinced his brother to move to the city, and the two practiced performing songs by Chitãozinho & Xororó, Roberto Carlos and The Beatles with Emival typically singing lead as Luiz sang harmonies and accompanied them on the guitar, then began playing locally in a group called ''Os Dominantes''. After moving to Brasília, where they lived with their uncle Zé, who arranged work for Luiz as a salesman at a clothing store and for Emival at a pharmacy, while also booking gigs for them. When they began performing regularly as a duo it was as Leandro & Leona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natália Lage
Natália Lage Vianna Soares (born 30 October 1978) is a Brazilian actress and television presenter. Career At the age of four years, Natália Lage appeared in several commercials. Natalia Lage has acted in telenovelas since the age of eleven - when she premiered in ''O Salvador da Pátria''. She starred in the telenovela ''O Amor Está no Ar'' in 1997. This was followed by appearances in ''A Padroeira'', ''Kubanacan'' and ''Da Cor do Pecado''. In the theater, she staged many shows as ''Zastrozzi'', assembly Selton Mello and Daniel Herz text to Canadian George Walker, Orlando with the text of Virginia Woolf toward Bia Lessa and ''Eu Nunca Disse que Prestava'' with a text by Adriana Falcão and Lu Pessanha, directed by Rodrigo Penna. She appeared in the films '' O Homem do Ano'', adaptation of José Henrique Fonseca, for The Romance ''O Matador'', by Patrícia Melo. She also appeared in the cast of '' 2 Filhos de Francisco'' and ''Xuxa e o Tesouro da Cidade Perdida''. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Flor
Maria Flor Leite Calaça (born August 31, 1983), usually known as Maria Flor, is a Brazilian actress. Career She was discovered in 2002, and her first role was in the film '' O Diabo a Quatro'', filmed in the same year, and released nationwide in Brazil in 2005. It was also her first role as a protagonist in a movie. She became famous after her role as Rê, a very insecure and innovative character, in Malhação telenovela. This was also her first television role. She played Tina, a romantic character, in the telenovela '' Cabocla''. To be able to play her character, Maria Flor spent almost a month in a farm learning how to be a peasant."Malhação não torna você um ator", diz Maria Flor - Terra (retrieved on August 14, 2007) In the movie '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Dumont
José Dumont (born 1 August 1950 in Bananeiras, Paraíba) is a Brazilian TV and movie actor, best known for his role as the family father in ''Behind the Sun'' (''Abril Despedaçado''), an award-winning film of director Walter Salles. More recently, he has been lionised for his role as the slick artist agent-entrepreneur in the movie 2 Filhos de Francisco. Born in the state of Paraíba, in Brazilian Northeast, Dumont has the typical ''physique du rôle'' of its inhabitants, and because of this is often chosen for interpreting them. He began his award-studded acting career in the theater and cinema, in 1975. He became better known throughout the country by his noted participation in the films ''Lúcio Flávio – Passageiro da Agonia'', directed by Hector Babenco in 1977, and ''Gaijin'', directed by Tizuka Yamasaki, in 1980. His first awards came in 1979, as the best actor in the film festivals of Gramado and Brasília, in ''O Homem que Virou Suco'', directed by João Batist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paloma Duarte
Paloma Marcos Sanches Silva (born 21 May 1977) is a Brazilian actress, best known as Paloma Duarte for ''Two Sons of Francisco'' (2005), ''Leo e Bia'' (2010) and ''Soulbound ''Soulbound'' (Portuguese: ''Teus Olhos Meus'') is a 2011 Brazilian drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this ki ...'' (2011). References Brazilian film actresses Living people 1977 births Place of birth missing (living people) {{brazil-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dira Paes
Ecleidira Maria Fonseca Paes (born 30 June 1968), known professionally as Dira Paes, is a Brazilian actress and television presenter. Among the numerous awards and nominations she has received, Paes won the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the Festival de Brasília for ''Corisco & Dadá'' and ''Anahy de las Misiones'', respectively, as well as the Best Actress at the 2013 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro for '' À Beira do Caminho''. Biography Born in Abaetetuba, in the interior of Pará, and raised in Belém, Paes had a very simple childhood with 7 siblings. She always wanted to be an actress, despite financial difficulties, she did not give up on her dream. She is of Native Brazilian, Portuguese, and African descent, and identifies herself as Amazonian '' cabocla''. Selected filmography TV * ''Carne de Sol'' (1986) * ''Ele , O boto'' (1987) * ''Araponga'' (1990) * ''Irmãos Coragem'' (1995) * ''Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos'' (1998) * ''Chiquinha Gonzaga'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
