
Rodrigo de Oliveira
Directing
Biography
Rodrigo de Oliveira is a director, writer and editor, born in Brazil in 1985. He won a Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro, the Brazilian Oscars, for the feature doc "All The Paulos in The World” (2018). Rodrigo began his career with Brazilian indie hits "The Vulgar Hours” (2011) and "Tybalt Dead, Romeo in Exile” (2015) and three award-winning shorts. In 2021 his fourth feature, "The First Fallen”, gathered prizes from festivals in Germany, USA, India, Switzerland, Argentina and Brazil. That same year, the prestigious Cinemateca do MAM, at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art (MAM-Rio) showed a complete retrospective of his oeuvre. In 2023, he released the feature doc "Lô Borges - All This Water”.
Known For

Redakai: Conquer the Kairu, also known simply as Redakai, is a Canada/France co-production animated TV series, produced by Marathon Media and Spin Master in association with Canal J and Gulli, with the participation of Le Centre National de La Cinematographie, Telefilm Canada, The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, The Ontario Film and Television Tax Credits, and The Government of Quebec: Film and Television Tax Credit, Geston SODEC. The series is, however, the first Canadian-French co-production not to be produced with a Canadian channel. The series is 51.63% French and 48.37% Canadian. The series premiered on Canada's YTV channel on July 9, 2011 and aired on Cartoon Network one week after in the United States. In France, the series debuted on October 22, 2011 on Gulli and Canal J. They also set deals for other networks around the world.
Redakai: Conquer the Kairu

1983 — A young biologist returns home from studies abroad and feels something wrong with his body. This is the start of the AIDS crisis when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil. Lives will change, friends will be lost and the future is uncertain.
The First Fallen

João is a 32-years-old musician that opts for the isolation of a farmhouse in the Brazilian countryside after Flora, his pregnant wife, breaks up with him. Three months pass and he’s finally ready to make amends with his wife and follow the birth of his son. But then João is surprised by the mysterious appearance of Max, his best friend, who’s been missing for years and was thought to be dead.
Tybalt Dead, Romeo Exiled

The world ends and Emanuel needs to guide João to the portal that takes the deserving to eternity. Emanuel is desperate to ascend, but João will challenge the master's right to paradise. A queer-Christian adaptation of the Apocalypse: Book of Revelations.
The Most Beloved

Suçuarana is the name of a mythical place, a lush landscape that appears in the weathered photo of her mother that Dora carries with her always. Dora has been on the road for a long time, hitching rides through Brazil’s mining region in search of her family’s homeland. But no one seems to know this place, seemingly lost to time. And the open road can be troubling for a woman traveling alone, as the generosity of strangers is suddenly eclipsed by danger. After an accident, Dora seeks refuge in an abandoned factory; there, a group of workers have formed a village and a community bond that feels akin to the home Dora searches for, if just for a moment.
Suçuarana

The painter Lauro seems to have a good life: he lives with his beloved wife Erika, and is successful working with art. However, he is not happy. One day, Lauro runs into Theo, a friend he hasn't seen in years. Both have already been in love with the same girl, Clara, who no longer lives in the city. It doesn't take long for the two to start remembering them as stories from the past, while taking a long walk through the streets of Vitória.
As Horas Vulgares

"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José

Lô Borges works on an album of new songs while traveling around Brazil on a tour that brings back the repertoire he composed in 1972 for Clube da Esquina.
Lô Borges - Toda Essa Água

Three workers gather around the preparation of a party in a museum. Apparently unknown, contacts between the three reveal profound implications in the past. In the center of the clashes there's a child. Lurking, the Devil.
Eclipse Solar

She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and faces becomes the last traces left from the man she one day knew and loved. Crossing mountains and roads, she tries to remake his steps. The places she vists bring people, gestures, memories and histories that slowly become part of her life.
The Volcano Exiles
A biopic about Glauber Rocha, one of the most influential filmmakers of Brazilian cinema and a key figure of Cinema Novo.
Spring of the Dragon

Rodrigo, the director of this film, was given three months to live. Lonely in facing death, he searches for Eduardo, his first boyfriend. But Eduardo won’t answer.