Jorge Furtado

Saneamento Basico (Portuguese for "basic sanitation") is a 2007 Brazilian comedy film written and directed by Jorge Furtado. It stars Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Camila Pitanga, Bruno Garcia, Lazaro Ramos, Tonico Pereira and Paulo...

In this article: Saneamento Basico, B movie, Paulo Jose, Bruno Garcia, Camila Pitanga, Wagner Moura, Lazaro Ramos, and Tonico Pereira

Isle of Flowers () is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado. It tracks the path of a tomato from garden to dump with the help of a monotone voiceover and a collection of bizarre images. While a very humorous film, the message it...

In this article: Isle of Flowers, Tomato sauce, God, Internet Movie Database, Gramado Film Festival, Alain Resnais, and Kurt Vonnegut

O Homem Que Copiava (en :The Man Who Copied) is a 2003 Brazilian comedy film by Jorge Furtado, set in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Andre Maciel, a young man who works in a photocopier shop, falls in love with his neighbour...

In this article: O Homem Que Copiava, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande, and Brazil

...the help of a co-worker, he schemes to rob an armored truck that picks up money regularly in his neighborhood. Writer-director Jorge Furtado's movie doesn't do much to rise above its romantic stalker premise, although having a romantic...

In this article: Lazaro Ramos and Porto Alegre, Brazil

...much too happy for their bliss to last. And then Romance really gets started. Director Guel Arraes, who wrote the script with Jorge Furtado, uses a behind-the-scenes look at the Brazilian TV industry as a backdrop to explore the nature of...

In this article: Tristan and Isolde, Wagner Moura, and The Miami Herald

...a deep understanding of what we are." The movie is based on a Brazilian adaptation of "Love's Labour's Lost" by moviemaker Jorge Furtado, who is also writing the script. The film, for which shooting will start next year, is set in New...

In this article: Fernando Meirelles, William Shakespeare, Jose Saramago, Love's Labour's Lost, Nobel Prize for literature, Cannes Film Festival, Blindness, The Constant Gardener, Brazil, and Oscar

...different funding path for the project. Meirelles' new pic will be based on the novel of the same name by local writer-director Jorge Furtado, who is writing the pic's script. The plot is centered on the experiences of a Brazilian young...

In this article: Fernando Meirelles, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare's plays, Universal Pictures, Brazil, TV Globo, and Slings and Arrows