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	Fernando Meirelles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fernando Meirelles, born in November 9th, 1955, is a film director from São Paulo, Brazil.
		He was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing in 2004 for his direction of the Brazilian film City of God, which was released in 2002 and received an American release in 2003 by Miramax Films.
		After several years in independent television, he became an advertising film director and is still one of the partners of o2 Filmes, the biggest Brazilian ad producer, which also produced City of God, Maids and Viva Voz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fernando_Meirelles (141 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Fernando Meirelles : Biography
		Though Meirelles would court success early on as the director of a popular Brazilian children's television show, his desire to move into feature territory was further fueled when a friend handed him a copy of Lins' sprawling street epic.
		It didn't take long for Meirelles to realize that he didn't have the necessary feature experience to tackle such a massive project, so, in order to prepare himself, the director took the helm for the decidedly smaller-scale drama Maids.
		Meirelles went on to tackle issues of globalism in The Constant Gardener (2005), adapted from a John Le Carré novel and starring Ralph Fiennes.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/257247/bio.jhtml (484 words)

	slant // magazine.com: City of Gods: An Interview With Director Fernando Meirelles
		Meirelles's competency as a storyteller is remarkable, as is the jittery lyricism with which he connects the film's many narratives, exposing an epic battlefield of urban corruption at the center of one of the world's most populous cities.
		Since the film's world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Meirelles has used the film's unprecedented success as a platform to focus the world's attention on the darkness of Rio's slums, one of the most violent and dangerous places in South America.
		Slant Magazine recently spoke with Meirelles about his next project, his role in the resurgent Latin American film movement, and how City of God has taken on a life of its own as a stirring work of political activism.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/features/fernandomeirelles.asp (1536 words)

	Fade to Black: Fernando Meirelles, Director
		Meirelles had just returned from a visit to Kenya at the time, and the story's Kenyan locations inflamed his desire to capture its terrain and people on film.
		Meirelles explains that the chance to take on such a vital issue teamed with an opportunity to film in Kenya proved enough incentive to put his own script on hold.
		Meirelles wanted to infuse the film with the same kind of visual intensity and handheld immediacy that he and cinematographer César Charlone received so much attention for on the multiple-award-winning City of God.
	millimeter.com /mag/video_fade_black_41/index.html (710 words)

	Fernando Meirelles Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Meirelles then shot the feature-length version using 100 people from his improvisation group, and while all non-actors, he allowed them to improvise a majority of their dialogue.
		Though Meirelles could have had the pick of the litter after his Oscar nomination—he refused offers to direct big budget Hollywood features, and even turned down “Collateral”—he chose instead to continue making films in third world countries that were closer to his heart.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/1425202 (1260 words)

	Amazon.com: movie info: The Constant Gardener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Meirelles also becomes a little preachy towards the end of the film that I could have done without though I know that most people know nothing of what goes on generally in Africa and specifically in regards to the synergies between the African nations and the major drug companies.
		Fernando Meirelles' "The Constant Gardener" is a terrific movie: breathtaking to look at, superbly acted by all but specifically by Feinnes, Weisz, Danny Huston and Bill Nighy.
		Meirelles, once again demonstrating his flamboyant mastery of film technique, brilliantly contrasts vibrantly colored but chaotic scenes of African poverty with gray, chilly, oh-so-discreet visions of the halls of power in London and Berlin.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JODA?v=glance (1899 words)

	Bernardo Bertolucci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Hailed as Latin America's Martin Scorsese, Fernando Meirelles was born in São Paulo, Brazil.
		When a friend gave him the novel City of God to read with the idea that he would turn it into a film, Meirelles was initially reluctant because he knew the book "was about the beginnings of drug dealing in Rio de Janeiro, a violent story, without hope," he recalled in an interview.
		Meirelles decided he wanted unknown actors and auditioned 2000 youngsters from poor areas of Rio de Janeiro.
	www.tribute.ca /directors/bios/9588.htm (377 words)

	Eye - Gods and mobsters - 01.30.03
		Fernando Meirelles' City of God captures hope and hate in a Brazilian slum
		Meirelles, a former commercial director with his own production company in Brazil, is referring to the film's high-gloss aesthetic, which renders three decades of crippling poverty and explosive street violence in uniquely exuberant tones.
		The story is told in vivid temporal hiccups, in a series of striking episodes that are held together by the experiences of the teenaged photographer Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) who, the director explains, is a surrogate for the first-person narrator of the novel by Paulo Lins.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.30.03/film/cityofgod.html (825 words)

	LA Weekly: Film: Police and Thieves
		Meirelles and the film's co-director, Kátia Lund, were soon hauled in for questioning based on suspicions that they had collaborated with real-life drug lords in order to film within their ghetto dominion.
		Meirelles would soon be threatened with criminal charges, and, even worse, he would find himself in the uncomfortable position of being asked to make sworn statements against one of the leaders of the Red Command.
		Meirelles concedes the point: "During the whole process of the film, that was the only time I ever was scared, scared that the traffickers would think that I was collaborating with the police."
	www.laweekly.com /ink/03/09/film-rosen.php (2476 words)

	A Veteran of the Short Form Makes a Big First Splash; Fernando Meirelles Discusses "City of God"
		At the ripe age of 47, renowned Brazilian commercial director Fernando Meirelles took his time before making his entree on the world cinema scene with the ferocious "City of God," an urban epic that has torn up the festival circuit since its debut in the competition section at Cannes 2002.
		Meirelles: That's the other thing; we didn't give them any script because they are not professionals and we were afraid that they would become very attached to the lines and not feel what they were doing.
		Meirelles: To be honest, my great fear was related to the script: to deal with characters, to build drama, and to keep the attraction.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_030113meir.html (1509 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Fernando Meirelles: Putting the gang to rights
		We abandoned this part of society and now we are reaping the consequences.' Meirelles cut his teeth making TV ads - Brazil's advertising industry is considered one of the most sophisticated in the world and its influence is visible in City of God.
		Both Meirelles and Lund are from São Paulo, Rio's rival city, and perhaps they needed to be.
		Meirelles believes that some of the cast have the talent to become professionals, although in Brazil there are few roles for fl people.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,855898,00.html (1504 words)

	CNN.com - The mysterious 'City of God' director - Feb. 28, 2004
		Fernando Meirelles, director of "City of God." He's up for an Oscar for best director.
		The "boys" Meirelles referred to were about 200 kids from the slums that he and his "City of God" co-director Katia Lund recruited for a series of performance workshops.
		The fame from the movie has changed many of their lives, Meirelles said, giving them a sense of pride that replaces, for some, the desire to be gangsters.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/28/sprj.aa04.fernando.meirelles.ap (705 words)

	dark discussion - The Constant Gardener: The new film by Fernando Meirelles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Meirelles and City of God editor Daniel Rezende, who is now working on Dark Water, at the Oscars afterparty.
		It's all about the Meirelles and Fiennes that it will bring into my life for me. I can't help wondering why he didn't employ Winslet, but hey - any friend of Nair's is a friend of mine.
		Meirelles' direction is less inspired and more tame than City of God but his focus at the film's love story is beautifully done and gives power to the whole plot.
	www.darkdreams.org /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=6777&pp=40 (1054 words)

	SuicideGirls > Boards > Lifestyle > Daniel Robert Epstein: Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
		Fernando Meirelles blew away the entire world with his powerful breakout film, City of God which went to garner four Academy Award nominations.
		Meirelles is now turning his eye to, The Constant Gardener, an American style political thriller with a twist because at its core it is a love story that defines the phrase opposites attract.
		meirelles is a strong voice in modern cinema.
	suicidegirls.com /boards/Lifestyle/79439 (183 words)

	Fernando Meirelles -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Fernando Meirelles -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Fernando Meirelles, born in November 9th, 1955, is a (The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter) Brazilian film director.
		Meirelles started as an advertising film director and is still one of the partners of o2 Filmes, the biggest Brazilian ad producer, which also produced (Phrases used to refer to Heaven) City of God, Maids and Viva Voz.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fe/fernando_meirelles.htm (106 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Feature :: Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener :: From Brazil to Africa (Page 1)
		Meirelles was intrigued by the character of a civilized, polite British diplomat who wants to know more about his wife’s doings but doesn’t because they have an agreement and he lives by that code.
		Activists accuse such companies of ignoring innovation to develop barely distinguishable drugs based on proven “blockbusters.” Meirelles is devastated by their focus on what ails the rich Western world, like heart disease, baldness and geriatric impotence, while slighting and outright ignoring the unprofitable but rampant diseases of the developing world—AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
		Meirelles views Kenya as the film’s “third principal character,” which necessitated location shooting.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=2237 (603 words)

	Le Soleil > Fernando Meirelles — Le second souffle de Cité de Dieu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Meirelles se dit un émule de réalisateurs aussi différents que Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Robert Atman, Paul Thomas Anderson et Martin Scorsese.
		Depuis son passage à Cannes, Meirelles a reçu des tonnes d'offres et fait des projets pour plusieurs années.
		Meirelles estime que son monteur, Daniel Rezende, a de très bonnes chances de remporter un trophée.
	lesoleil.cyberpresse.ca /journal/2004/02/27/les_oscars/00670_fernando_meirelles_le_second_souffle_de_cite_de_dieu.php (1544 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - The Constant Gardener (2005), Fernando Meirelles, Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, dvd ...
		Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles earned an oversized amount of praise for his City of God, a film that had a remarkable sense of place -- set in the ghettos of Brazil -- but suffered because of its obvious stylistic borrowings from Tarantino, Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson.
		Meirelles does not have the first idea how to cinematically adapt a complex novel, and so he ends up simply filming long conversations.
		In an effort to make these conversations seem visual, he stages them in interesting places, such as the top of a cliff or in a shade-draped garden, but they are still nothing more than long conversations.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2005/constgard.shtml (657 words)

	indielondon.co.uk - film - The Constant Gardener, Fernando Meirelles interview
		Fernando: But it looks good, a lot of people have asked me if it was real.
		Fernando: The make-up artist wanted to kill me because I said I was never going to shoot Rachel; from behind - because that’s where the prosthetic was stuck on.
		He came to the set, he was late I said ‘Hello Bill, I’m Fernando please get dressed...’ I knew his work but it was very different from the character I was asking him to do.
	www.indielondon.co.uk /film/constant_gardener_mereilles.html (1201 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Constant Gardener" movie review (2005) "The Constant Gardener" review, Fernando Meirelles, Ralph ...
		Directed by Fernando Meirelles with the same unblinking, sweaty, ground-level grittiness he brought to "City of God," his brilliant vérité exposé of Brazilian poverty, "The Constant Gardener" becomes an incredible puzzle with far-flung pieces that Quayle must link together with tenuous but damning evidence.
		And whether he travels to London or hitches a lift with the Red Cross to a remote village in Kenya devastated by disease (in order to interrogate a particular doctor), he's under such constant threat that in some scenes it feels as if any background actor could be a hired killer closing in.
		Through almost lyrical, psyche-tapping editing and dynamic, voyeuristic photography, Meirelles parallels this tension with intimate scenes (both romantic and contentious) from Quayle's courtship and marriage, providing a tender, human driving force for his determination.
	www.splicedonline.com /05reviews/constantg.html (686 words)

	City of God reviewed by Steve Sailer for UPI; Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Lin, Fernando Meirelles, Bráulio ...
		If you loved Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" and have been waiting for a similarly smart, stylish, hyperkinetic gangster flick, you're in luck: No, not Scorsese's oddly uninspired "Gangs of New York," but the killer Brazilian import "City of God," which debuts in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.
		Fernando Meirelles, Brazil's snazziest TV commercial director, and his co-director, documentarian Katia Lund, auditioned 2,000 slum kids and trained 106 of act in the movie.
		Meirelles delivers extraordinary cinematic razzle-dazzle for a movie with a $3.3 million budget.
	www.isteve.com /Film_City_of_God.htm (854 words)

	Buy.com - City of God : DVD : Alexandre Rodrigues : Leandro Firmino da Hora : Katia Lund : Fernando Meirelles : Buena ...
		Director Fernando Meirelles combines visual flashiness with dark history in telling the story of three decades of unrest in underground Rio de Janiero.
		Director Meirelles was assisted by Katia Lund, a filmmaker who had previously shot in the Rio ghettos.
		"...Meirelles is a world-class talent who illuminates every frame of this fresh, ferocious and indelibly moving film.
	www.buy.com /prod/City_of_God/q/loc/322/40230734.html (746 words)

	Amazon.com: City of God (2002): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the vortex of this maelstrom is L'il Z (Leandro Firmino da Hora--like most of the cast, a nonprofessional actor), self-appointed king of the dealers, determined to eliminate all competition at the expense of his corrupted soul.
		Directors Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund somehow managed to convey in their movie the full strenght of the novel (written by Paulo Lins) on which "City of God" is based.
		Fernando Meirelles knows how to direct, this guy will be around for awhile, I can guarantee that folks.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000D9PNX?v=glance (2020 words)

	FilmStew.com • In Gardener They Trust
		For director Fernando Meirelles and star Rachel Weisz, the proudest legacy of their latest film project is something called The Constant Gardener Charitable Trust.
		Based on the bestselling novel by John Le Carré, this epic romantic thriller set in the diplomatic quarters and slums of Kenya boasts a riveting story, the hottest of directors in Brazilian Fernando Meirelles, and a glittering cast headed by Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes.
		Although many are discussing this flashback thriller as a pre-Labor Day Weekend emissary of the fall awards season march, star Weisz and director Meirelles were equally proud during their recent discussion with FilmStew in San Francisco of The Constant Gardener Charitable Trust, an initiative undertaken by producer Simon Channing-William.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=12233 (267 words)

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	Something's rotten... The Constant Gardener, directed by Fernando Meirelles, screenplay by Jeffrey Caine, based on the ...
		The Constant Gardener, directed by Fernando Meirelles, screenplay by Jeffrey Caine, based on the novel by John le Carré
		John le Carré’s novel of political intrigue, The Constant Gardener, has been adapted for the screen by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (City of God).
		Meirelles has legitimately interpreted le Carré’s intricately plotted thriller.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/gard-s06.shtml (1863 words)

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