Fernando Meirelles

...relief, disappointment and worries about the future for students at Westminster Kingsway college receiving their A-level results today The notorious Rio slum made infamous by Fernando Meirelles film has been cleared of its gangs, police claim

In this article: Private university, YouTube, Sao Bernardo do Campo, and Sao Paulo

...Award as best director with this film. In 2004, at the Cannes Festival, the movie received four nominations: Best Director (Fernando Meirelles) - Best Adapted Screenplay - Best Photography - Best Edition. As director of the film...

In this article: University of Sao Paulo, Cannes Film Festival, Marcelo Machado, Academy Award, School of Architecture, and City of God

...leaders emphasised recent changes to the policing strategy that they claimed had countered the bloody image depicted in City of God, Fernando Meirelles' gritty 2002 film about slum drug lords. They even employed the Oscar-nominated Brazilian...

In this article: Rio de Janeiro, International Olympic Committee, London, 2012 Olympics, Craig Reedie, Royal Mail, and City of God

...festival has a look and style clearly shaped by the country's international heavy-hitters, directors such as Walter Salles and Fernando Meirelles. But weirdly, the most purely enjoyable Brazilian movie I saw was the most atypical - and partly...

In this article: Ballet Shoes, Bob Dylan, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil, Walter Salles, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro

...is time to light the Olympic cauldron in a tropical country." A pair of well-crafted films, overseen by City of God director Fernando Meirelles, had earlier rammed the point home as faces of many hues assembled on Copacabana beach to form the...

In this article: Barack Obama, IOC, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, World Cup, Chicago, God, Jacques Rogge, and Pele

...cast of international actors with Wagner Moura in the lead role. Directed by Toniko Melo, "VIPs" is being produced by 02's Fernando Meirelles and Paulo Morelli, with Bel Berlinck serving as exec producer. Universal Pictures International...

In this article: City of God, Paulo Morelli, Braulio Mantovani, and Sao Paulo, Brazil

Body of Lies, Ridley Scott, 128 mins, 15 Blindness, Fernando Meirelles, 122 mins, 18 Conversations with My Gardener, Jean Becker, 104 mins, 12A Films dealing with terror in the Middle East all seem to merge into one, whoever the...

In this article: Leonardo DiCaprio, Blindness, Russell Crowe, Body of Lies, Ridley Scott, Julianne Moore, and City of God

Posted: Tue., May 13, 2008, 11:00am PT 6 Sales takes Fernando Meirelles film 'Maids' details domestic servants' drudgery, dreams Madrid-based sales consortium 6 Sales has taken worldwide rights outside Brazil to Fernando Meirelles'...

In this article: Blindness, City of God, Sao Paulo, Alfonso Cuaron, Antonia, The Constant Gardener, City of Men, and Solo con tu pareja

Posted: Tue., May 13, 2008, 9:59am PT Meirelles returns to spotlight at Cannes Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles returns to the Cannes film festival with opener "Blindness," his first film in competition, six years after his triumph...

In this article: Blindness, Mark Ruffalo, Oscar, Jose Saramago, Danny Glover, Don McKellar, Julianne Moore, and Surgery

Posted: Tue., May 13, 2008, 9:59am PT Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles returns to the Cannes film festival with opener "Blindness," his first film in competition, six years after his triumph with "City of God" in Critics' Week.

In this article: Blindness, Mark Ruffalo, Oscar, Jose Saramago, Don McKellar, Julianne Moore, Surgery, and Cannes Film Festival