Brazilian film directors

Alê Abreu (born March 6, 1971) is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. Sírius, his first short film, debuted at the 1993 Anima Mundi as the only Brazilian animation that year. It won the Best Film Award at the Festival de Cine para Niños y Jovenes and was also screened at the Mostra Internacional de Cinema São Paulo and at the section Animation for Children of the Hiroshima International Animation Festival. His second short film, Espantalho (lit. "Scarecrow"), released in 1998, won the 3rd Best Brazilian Animation at the Anima Mundi, the Best Art Direction Award at the Brazilian Film Festival of Miami, and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 1st Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil. His first feature film, Garoto Cósmico, debuted at the 2007 Anima Mundi. In 2013, at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, he released his second film, Boy and the World. This film became an international success, was nominated at the 88th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, and won several prizes, including the Best Feature Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and the Best Animated Feature-Independent at the Annie Awards.

André Ferreira da Silva (born January 10, 1975), better known by his pen name André Vianco, is a Brazilian best-selling novelist, screenwriter, and film and television director. Specialized in urban fantasy and horror, supernatural and vampire fiction, he rose to fame in 1999 with the novel Os Sete. As of 2016, his books have sold over a million copies, and in 2018 he was named, alongside Max Mallmann, Raphael Draccon and Eduardo Spohr, one of the leading Brazilian fantasy writers of the 21st century.

Carlos Império Hamburger, better known as Cao Hamburger (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaw ɐ̃ˈbuʁɡeʁ]; born 27 February 1962), is a Brazilian film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is one of the creators of the Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum series of programs for children in the TV Cultura of São Paulo, along with Flávio de Souza, which gave origin to a successful movie with the same title. Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum was one of the most successful children shows to air in Brazil. He directed in 2006 another successful film, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, partly based on his childhood memories.
Hamburger was also one of two creative directors for Rio's contribution to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. He won twice the International Emmy Kids Awards of best series with the works Pedro & Bianca and Young Hearts: Embrace Diversity, in 2014 and 2019 respectively.

Tadeu Jungle (born 1956 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian multimedia artist. He works as a videomaker, photographer, poet, designer, producer and director of cinema and television.
Graduated in Social Communication through the School of Communication and Arts, USP, in 1980, Tadeu Jungle was part of an inventive group called TVDO were, along with his friends, made various experimental productions. Arlindo Machado refers to them as part of the Brazilian independent video generation and most recently he directed two feature films: Amanhã Nunca Mais (Tomorrow Never More, 2011) and the documentary Evoé, Retrato de um Antropófago (Evoé, Portrait of an Anthropophagist, 2011), about the playwright Zé Celso Martinez Correa. He is currently married to the director and screenwriter Estela Renner.