Plus Camerimage 'Silver Frog' Award [2008]

Photo by Grzegorz Piekarski

                

 CÉSAR CHARLONE   ABC

Born: 1958, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Education: Veterinary Medicine [unfinished]; Escola Superior de Cinema São Luís, São Paulo, Brazil [1972-75].

Career: Went to Brazil in 1970. Started as c.asst working with ph Dib Lufti and Mario Carneiro. Went to Cuba [1986-1990] and was co-founder of the Escuela Internacional de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños.

Ph and directed numerous commercials & music videos.

Associate member of the CSC.

Appeared in ep doc tv-series 'Retratos Brasileiros: César Charlone'.

Awards: As doph: Festival de Gramado 'Golden Kikito' [1988] for 'Feliz año velho'; Festival de Gramado 'Golden Kikito' [1996] for 'Como nascem os anjos'; Prêmio ABC de Cinematografia [2001] for 'Brava gente Brasíleira' [ep 'Palace II']; Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, 'Best Cinematography' Award [2002], Cinema Brazil Grand Prize [2003], Prêmio ABC de Cinematografia [2003], Camerimage 'Golden Frog' Award [2003], Brothers Manaki IFF 'Silver Camera 300' [2003] & 'Oscar' AA nom [2003] for 'Cidade de Deus'; BAFTA Film Award nom [2005], BIFA nom [2005] & BSC Best Cinematography Award nom [2006] for 'The Constant Gardener'; Plus Camerimage 'Silver Frog' Award [2008] & Prêmio ABC de Cinematografia [2009] for 'Blindness'.

As dir: Prêmio Colunistas Brasília 'Gold Medal TV' [2000] for commercials.



 FILMS & TELEVISION

1984

Em nome da segurança nacional [Renato Tapajós] c; doc/48m; cph: Adrian Cooper, Zetas Malzoni & José Roberto Eliezer

1984

Nada será como antes, nada? [Renato Tapajós] 16mm/c; doc/43m; cph: Aloysio Raulino & Zetas Malzoni

1984

Hia sa sa - hai yah! [Olga Futemma] v/c; doc/30m

1984

Aqueles dois/That Couple [Sérgio Amon] c; 2uc: Christian Lesage

1985

O homem da capa preta/The Man in the Black Cape [Sérgio Rezende] c

1986

Feliz año velho/Happy Old Year [Roberto Gervitz] c

1989

Doida demais/She Can Drive a Person Crazy [Sergio Rezende] c; cph: Antônio Luís Mendes & Antônio Luís Soares

1994

Dois bilhoes de coraçoes/Todos os corações do mundo/Two Billion Hearts [Murilo Salles] s16+35mm-to-35mm/c; doc/108m; superv ph; cph: Jacques Cheuiche, Walter Carvalho, Roberto Amadeo, a.o.; aph: Mustapha Barat; official FIFA World Cup film

1995

Como nascem os anjos/How Angels Are Born [Murilo Salles] c

1998

[Pierre 'Fatumbi'] Verger: Mensageiro entre dois mundos/Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between 2 Worlds [Lula Buarque De Hollanda] s16-35bu/c; doc/82m

2001

Golden Gate (Palace II)/Palace II [Kátia Lund & Fernando Meirelles] tvm/21m; ep of tv-series 'Brava gente Brasíleira'

2001

Cidade de Deus/City of God/God's Town [Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund] s16+s35-to35mm/c

2002

Intolerance [Fernando Meirelles] announced; status unknown

2003

Sucker Free City [Spike Lee] tvm

2004

The Constant Gardener [Fernando Meirelles] s16+s35-to-35mm/c

[At Aaton camera] with soundman Daniel Márquez [left]

"El baño del Papa"

2005

El baño del Papa/O banheiro do Papa/The Pope's Toilet [César Charlone & Enrique Fernández] s16-35bu/c; + co-scrpl

2007

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains/Stranded! The Andes Plane Crash Survivors [Gonzalo Arijon] s16+dv-to-35mm/b&w-c; doc/126m

Fernando Meirelles [left] - CC - actress Julianne Moore - "Blindness"

2007

Blindness/Ensaio sobre a cegueira [Fernando Meirelles] dv+s16+s35+vv-to-35mm/c; 2uc: James Sainthill

2007

Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain [Ravi Kumar] scheduled as ph with a September start, but film was ph by Charlie Wuppermann

2008

Blackout [Daniel Rezende] c; short/10m; + cast

2008

Futebol Brasileiro [Miki Kuretani & Tatiana Vilela] c; doc/66m

2008

The Pope Project/The Pope's Toilet [?] in development; German/Polish remake of film (see 2005)

2009

Love's Labors Lost [Fernando Meirelles] in development since 2007

2009

Camila and Adriana [Dainara Toffoli] in development since 2008


 MISCELLANEOUS

2003

Man on Fire [Tony Scott] c.op 'a' cam; ph: Paul Cameron; Charlone left prod to join Spike Lee as ph of 'Sucker Free City'


 FILMS & TELEVISION AS DIRECTOR

1984

E quando eu crescer [doc/?m] ph: ?

2002

Cidade dos homens/City of Men [ep #1 'A coroa do imperador/The Emperor's Crown'] 19-part tv-series, 2002-05; 1st season, 2002 (4 ep); ph: Adriano Goldman

2003

Cidade dos homens/City of Men [ep #6 'Dois para Brasília/Two for Brasília/The Two on Their Way to Brasília'] 2nd season, 2003 (5 ep); ph: Adriano Goldman; see 2002

2005

El baño del Papa [co-d; + co-scrpl/ph] see Films & Television