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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 |
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1984 |
Em nome da segurança nacional [Renato Tapajós] c; doc/48m; cph: Adrian Cooper, Zetas Malzoni & José Roberto Eliezer |
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1984 |
Nada será como antes, nada? [Renato Tapajós] 16mm/c; doc/43m; cph: Aloysio Raulino & Zetas Malzoni |
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1984 |
Hia sa sa - hai yah! [Olga Futemma] v/c; doc/30m |
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1984 |
Aqueles dois/That Couple [Sérgio Amon] c; 2uc: Christian Lesage |
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1985 |
O homem da capa preta/The Man in the Black Cape [Sérgio Rezende] c |
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1986 |
Feliz año velho/Happy Old Year [Roberto Gervitz] c |
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1989 |
Doida demais/She Can Drive a Person Crazy [Sergio Rezende] c; cph: Antônio Luís Mendes & Antônio Luís Soares |
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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 |
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1995 |
Como nascem os anjos/How Angels Are Born [Murilo Salles] c |
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1998 |
[Pierre 'Fatumbi'] Verger: Mensageiro entre dois mundos/Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between 2 Worlds [Lula Buarque De Hollanda] s16-35bu/c; doc/82m |
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2001 |
Golden Gate (Palace II)/Palace II [Kátia Lund & Fernando Meirelles] tvm/21m; ep of tv-series 'Brava gente Brasíleira' |
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2001 |
Cidade de Deus/City of God/God's Town [Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund] s16+s35-to35mm/c |
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2002 |
Intolerance [Fernando Meirelles] announced; status unknown |
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2003 |
Sucker Free City [Spike Lee] tvm |
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2004 |
The Constant Gardener [Fernando Meirelles] s16+s35-to-35mm/c |
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2005 |
El baño del Papa/O banheiro do Papa/The Pope's Toilet [César Charlone & Enrique Fernández] s16-35bu/c; + co-scrpl |
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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 |
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Fernando Meirelles [left] - CC - actress Julianne Moore - "Blindness" |
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2007 |
Blindness/Ensaio sobre a cegueira [Fernando Meirelles] dv+s16+s35+vv-to-35mm/c; 2uc: James Sainthill |
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2007 |
Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain [Ravi Kumar] scheduled as ph with a September start, but film was ph by Charlie Wuppermann |
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2008 |
Blackout [Daniel Rezende] c; short/10m; + cast |
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2008 |
Futebol Brasileiro [Miki Kuretani & Tatiana Vilela] c; doc/66m |
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2008 |
The Pope Project/The Pope's Toilet [?] in development; German/Polish remake of film (see 2005) |
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2009 |
Love's Labors Lost [Fernando Meirelles] in development since 2007 |
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2009 |
Camila and Adriana [Dainara Toffoli] in development since 2008 |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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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 |
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1984 |
E quando eu crescer [doc/?m] ph: ? |
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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 |
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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 |
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2005 |
El baño del Papa [co-d; + co-scrpl/ph] see Films & Television |