RIP Bruno Silveira

 Bruno Silveira, director of the highest-grossing film in Brazil, has died

 

La Vanguardia

5/14/2022

Rio de Janeiro, May 14 (EFE) .- The Brazilian photographer, filmmaker and producer Breno Silveira, director of "Dois Filhos de Francisco", the highest grossing film in the history of Brazil, died this Saturday at the age of 58 after suffering a heart attack on the set where he was filming a new tape.

Silveira suffered a sudden heart attack on the first day of recording "Dona Victoria", a film starring the famous actress Fernanda Montenegro, on the set set up in Limoeiro, a city in the interior of the state of Pernambuco (northeast), reported the production company Conspiración Filmes, of which he was a co-owner.

The director gained fame with his debut feature, "Dois Filhos de Francisco" (Two Sons of Francisco, 2005), a film that attracted 5.3 million viewers in its first year of release and in which he tells the story of the couple of popular singers Zezé Di Camargo and Luciano from the perspective of their father.

The filmmaker also directed other films with great success in Brazil such as "Era una vez" (2008); "Gonzaga: de pai pra filho" (2012), about the life of Luiz Gonzaga, one of the country's most emblematic singers, and his son Gonzaguinha, who followed in his footsteps, and "Entre Irmas" (2017 ).

The director born in Brasilia in 1964 and who trained in cinema at the École Louis Lumière in Paris began his career in the seventh art as director of photography for "Carlota Joaquina" (1995), a comedy directed by Carla Camurati about the Brazilian empress of that name.

In 2000 he was the director of photography for the film "Eu, tu, eles", which was selected for the "A Certain Regard" exhibition at the Cannes festival.

He was also director of photography for "Barulhinho Bom - Uma Viagem musical" (1998), "La serva padrona" (1998), "Traição" (1999), "Gêmeas" (2000) and "Bufo & Spallanzani" (2000), as well as producer of "Casseta & Planeta: A Taça do Mundo é Nossa" (2003) and "O Homem do Ano" (2005).

In recent years he had been dedicating himself to television series and stood out as the author of "Dom", one of the Brazilian beings with the highest audience on the Amazon Prime Video platform and of which he had just delivered the second season.

He is also responsible for "1 Contra Todos", the Brazilian series that has received the most nominations for the International Emmy Awards and of which he directed four seasons for the Fox channel.

After concluding the second season of Dom, in which he tells the story of a middle-class young man who sold drugs in the Copabanana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro and became a robber of luxury residences, he proposed to produce "Dona Victoria" , about an old woman who managed to dismantle a drug gang in Copacabana by filming their adventures from the window of her apartment.

Precisely to record scenes of Victoria's childhood in the impoverished Brazilian northeast, Silveira had traveled to Limoeiro, where he died. EFE

 

SILVEIRA, Bruno

Born: 1964, Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

Died: 5/14/2022. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Bruno, Silveira’s westerns, producer, director:

The Seamstress – 2017 [producer, director]

The Seamstress (TV) – 2017 [director]