2006Nominee
Best Performance
Primeiro Movimento
Marão
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 30, 1971
Biography
Marão graduated from the UFRJ School of Fine Arts and is an animation director, having made fourteen short films and participated in more than three hundred animations for advertising, internet, TV and cinema. He was founding President of ABCA (Brazilian Association of Animation Cinema), professor on the postgraduate course in animation at PUC for seven years and since 2003 he has been one of the coordinators of International Animation Day and managing partner of the production company Marão Drawings Excited. His short films have been selected for 658 film festivals in more than forty countries and received 124 awards. Marão was honored at the 20th Anima Mundi and also received retrospectives at the Baixada Animada, Iguacine, Animanima (Serbia), ReAnimania (Armênia), Anima BR (Angola) and ANIMAGE (PE) festivals.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2015Nominee
Best Performance
Até a China
2003Nominee
Best Director
Engolervilha
Career Highlights
2006Highlight
Best Director
EngoleDuasErvilhas
2013Highlight
Best Performance
Between Frames: The Art of Brazilian Animation
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Between Frames: The Art of Brazilian Animation
Bizarre Fish from the Abyssal Zone