AFFONSO BEATO ABC/ASC

Born: 13 July 1941, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as Affonso Henriques Ferreira Beato.

Education: Escola Nacional de Belas Artes [Painting].

Career: 'My father was born in Portugal. He came from a very poor family and immigrated to Brazil. He became a Ford Motor Company representative and later owned a glass manufacturing factory, which had fascinating technologies. He was determined to assure me a good education. My family had a Leica camera. Later I got a Hasselblad camera and started photographing architecture. I attended photography classes at the museum. I was also interested in movies. I would skip school to go see a movie instead. [...] I failed the test for the Naval Academy after high school when I was 16 years old. I went to work instead. We found ways to produce small, independent movies, but the political situation in Brazil became difficult. The military government started arresting filmmakers, musicians and other artists. My wife and I had an opportunity to go to New York [1970]. We planned to stay there for a couple of years. I met Jim McBride, a director in New York, who had seen 'Antonio das mortes' [1968]. We have done 13 pictures together; the first one was 'Hot Times' [in 1974]. I lived in New York City on the west side of Manhattan for 15 years. It was an interesting place and time to live. It was a time for reflection. There was great freedom in all of the arts, pop culture and music. All of those things had a great influence on me personally as a human being as well as a cinematographer. [...] I went back to Brazil for about five years [1985-90] Empresa Brasileira de Filmes Sociedade Anônima [Embrafilme (created in 1969 and disbanded in 1990)], the state film production house. I was vice-president for cultural affairs and also for a film technology center that provided support for students who were making short films.' [From the KODAK OnFilm website.] as one of the heads of

Ph 300+ commercials [for Shell, Exxon, C&A, Heineken, Fiat, a.o.], 60+ shorts and music videos.

One of the founding members [in 2000] of the ABC and president [2004-06]. Active member of the ASC since October 2002. Teaches cinematography at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.

In January 2011, Beato released his Stereo Depth 3D Calculator as an iPhone app and his text Stereo 3D Fundamentals.

Appeared in the tv-doc 'Retratos brasileiros - Affonso Beato' [2007, Jorge Monclar].

Awards: Festival de Brasilia 'Melhor fotografia' [1965]; Coruja de Ouro 'Melhor fotografia' [1969]; Festival de Gramado 'Melhor fotografia internacional' [1997]; Grande Prêmio Brasil [1999] for 'Orfeu'; Camerimage 'Golden Frog' nom [1999] & Goya Award nom [2000] for 'Todo sobre mi madre'; Prêmio ABC de Cinematografia [2001] for 'Vento' [commercial] and 'Pérola negra' [music video].

Website: Affonso Beato

FILMS

1964	Cara a cara/Face to Face [Júlio Bressane] c
1965	Lima Barreto: Trajetória [Júlio Bressane] b&w; doc/11m
1965	Heitor dos Prazeres [Antonio Carlos da Fontoura] 16mm-35bu/c; doc/13m
1965	O circo [Arnaldo Jabor] c; doc/35m
1965	Memória do Cangaço/Memories of the Cangaço [Paolo Gil Soares] b&w; doc/30m; also seg of 'Brasil verdade' (1968)
1967	Brasília, contradições de uma cidade nova/Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City [Joaquim Pedro de Andrade] c; doc/23m
1968	1968/Passeatas de 68 [Glauber Rocha & Affonso Beato] b&w; doc/22m
1968	O dragão da maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro/Antonio das mortes [Glauber Rocha] c
1968	Copacabana me engaña/Copacabana Fools Me [Antonio Carlos da Fontoura] b&w; cph: Jorge Bodanzky
1968	O bravo guerreiro/The Brave Warrior [Gustavo Dahl] c
1968	Brasil verdade [doc/130m/4 seg] see 'Memória do Cangaço' (1965)
1968	Viagem ao fim do mundo/Voyage to the End of the World [Fernando Campos] b&w; cph: Oswaldo De Oliveira & Cliton Villela
1969	Le maître du temps/O homem das estrelas [Jean-Daniel Pollet] c; cph: Jean Collomb
1969	Amáscara da traição [Roberto Pires] c; cph: Pompilho Tostes
1969	Arte pública [Paulo Martins & Jorge Sirito] c; doc/14m
1969	Os imaginários [Geraldo Sarno] 16mm/b&w; doc/9m; cph: Leonardo Bartucci & Lauro Escorel
1970	A mão do homem [Paulo Gil Soares] 16mm/c; doc/19m; cph: Thomaz Farkas
1970	O engenho [Geraldo Sarno] 16mm/c; doc/10m; cph: Lauro Escorel
1970	O homem de couro [Paulo Gil Soares] 16mm/c; doc/21m; addph; ph: Thomaz Farkas
1970	Frei Damião: trombeta dos aflitos, martelo dos herejes [Paulo Gil Soares] 16mm/c; doc/20m; addph: Thomaz Farkas & Lauro Escorel
1970	Erva Bruxa [Paulo Gil Soares] 16mm/c; doc/21m; also seg of 'Herança do Nordeste' (1972)
1970	Pindorama [Arnaldo Jabor] c
1971	Padre Cícero [Geraldo Sarno] 16mm/c; doc/10m; cph: Lauro Escorel; also seg of 'Herança do Nordeste' (1972)
1971	O capitão bandeira contra o doutor Moura Brazil [Antônio Calmon] cs/c
1971	La tierra prometida/The Promised Land [Miguel Littin] c
1972	Herança do Nordeste [doc/82m/3 seg] see 'Erva Bruxa' (1970) & 'Padre Cícero' (1971)
1974	Hot Times/A Hard Day for Archie/Sweet Sixteen [Jim McBride] c
1975	Terra dos Índios/Land of the Indians [Zelito Viana] c; doc/105m; cph: Lúcio Kodato, Ricardo Stein & Luiz Carlos Saldanha
1975	Ensaio [Roberto Duarte] c; doc/11m
1975	Destino manifiesto [José García] b&w-c; doc/56m; cph: J. García
1976	The Double Day [Helena Solberg-Ladd] 16mm/c; doc/52m; cph: Christine Burrill
1977	Porto Rico: paraíso invadido/Puerto Rico: Paradise Invaded [Affonso Beato] c; doc/30m
1977	The Boss' Son [Bobby Roth] c
1980	You Better Watch Out/Christmas Evil/Terror in Toyland [Lewis Jackson] c; cph: Ricardo Aronovich
1980	Circle of Power/Mystique/Brainwash/The Naked Weekend [Bobby Roth] c
1980	Documenteur [: An Emotion Picture] [Agnès Varda] 16mm-35bu/c; short/58m; cph: Nurith Aviv & Bob Carr
1981	Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey [Eugene Rosow] 16mm/c; doc/90m; cph: Armand Marco & Jeri Sopanen
1982	Los dos mundos de Angelita/The Two Worlds of Angelita [Jane Morrison] 16mm-35bu/c
1983	Para viver um grande amor/To Live a Great Love [Miguel Faria Jr.] c
1984	Além da paixão/Happily Ever After/Beyond Passion/Felizes para sempre [Bruno Barreto] c
1984	Tropclip [Luiz Fernando Goulart] c
1985	The Big Easy [Jim McBride] c
1988	Great Balls of Fire! [Jim McBride] c
1989	Enid Is Sleeping/Over Her Dead Body [Maurice Phillips] c
1993	Uncovered [Jim McBride] c
1994	Mil e uma/A Thousand and One [Susana de Moraes] c
1995	La flor de mi secreto/The Flower of My Secret [Pedro Almodóvar] c
1995	Cinco dias, cinco noites/Five Days, Five Nights [José Fonseca e Costa] c
1995	Traição/Treason/Betrayal [Arthur Fontes ('First Sin'), José Henrique Fonseca ('Son of a Bitch') & Cláudio Torres ('Diabolic')] c; 3 seg; cph: Breno Silveira
1997	Carne trémula/Live Flesh [Pedro Almodóvar] p/c
1998	Orfeu [Carlos Diegues] s35/c; 2uc: Luís Abramo
1998	Todo sobre mi madre/Tudo sobre minha mãe/All About My Mother [Pedro Almodóvar] p/c
1999	Price of Glory [Carlos Ávila] c

[Left] with dir Terry Zwigoff - "Ghost World"

2000

Ghost World [Terry Zwigoff] c; addph: Nancy Schreiber

2001

View from the Top [Bruno Barreto] s35/c; addph: Enrique Chediak

2001

Deus é Brasileiro/God Is Brazilian [Carlos Diegues] s35/c; 2uc: Rodrigo Monte

2002

Dot the I [Matthew Parkhill] c

2002

The Fighting Temptations [Jonathan Lynn] s35/c; SpaceCam ph: Ron Goodman

2004

Dark Water [Walter Salles] p/c; 2uc: Monty Rowan

With dir Stephen Frears [left] and actress Helen Mirren - "The Queen"

2005

The Queen [Stephen Frears] s16+v (archive)+35mm-to-35mm/c; aph: Adam Dale

2006

Linha de Passe [Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas] announced as ph, but film was ph by Mauro Pinheiro Jr.

2006

Love in the Time of Cholera [Mike Newell] s35/c; 2uc: Rodrigo Monte

With dir George C. Wolfe [right] - "Nights in Rodanthe"

2007

Nights in Rodanthe [George C. Wolfe] s35/c; aph: David B. Nowell; 2uc: Kees van Oostrum

2010

Celestina [Jose Rivera] pre-production

TELEVISION

1970

Supergirl [- Das Mädchen von den Sternen] [Rudolf Thome] tvm; + small part

1980

Oye Willie [?] ?-part PBS-tv series, 1980-81

1982

The Brazilian Connection - A Struggle for Democracy/A conexão brasileira [Helena Solberg] 16mm-to-tape/c; doc/58m; cph: Tom Sigel & Ron Zinnerman; for PBS-tv

1991

Marisa Monte - Mais [Lula Buarque de Hollanda & Arthur Fontes] mus special/85m; addph: Mustapha Barat & José Guerra

1991

Blood Ties [Jim McBride] pilot

1992

The Wrong Man [Jim McBride] tvm; + small part

1996

The Informant/Johnny Loves Suzy [Jim McBride] tvm; also in theatres

1996

Pronto [Jim McBride] tvm

1997

Dead by Midnight [Jim McBride] tvm

2001

Adriana Calcanhoto - Público [Jodele Lacher & Suzana de Moraes] mus show/b&w-c/60m

2003

Plainsong [Richard Pearce] tvm; ep #218 of 'Hallmark Hall of Fame'-series

2008

Maysa - Quando fala o coração [Jayme Monjardim] 9-part miniseries/HD (ARRI D-21), 2009

2009

Viver a vida [ep #1 dir by Jayme Monjardim & Fabricio Mamberti] 116-part series, 2009-10

"Cinema Verite"

2010

Cinema Verite [Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini] tvm/35mm+HD+s8-to-HD

FILMS AS CAMERA ASSISTANT

1963	Os fuzis/The Guns [Ruy Guerra] ph: Ricardo Aronovich
1969	Macunaíma [- o herói sem nenhum caráter]/Jungle Freaks [Joaquim Pedro de Andrade] co-c.asst; ph: Guido Cosulich