Sérgio Péo
Directing
Sérgio Péo was born in Pará in 1947 and at the age of 12 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he lives. He is an architect / urban planner, filmmaker, poet, visual artist. He studied architecture and urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and soon started to use cinema to question housing conditions and urban behavior in the city. His films Pira (1972), Na Maré Com Ho Chi Minh (1974), Rocinha Brasil 77, (awarded at the Jornada de Salvador and honorable mention at the Obenhauser Festival, Germany); Associação dos Moradores dos Guararapes (best short film at the Gramado Festival in 1979), and Urban Contradictions (1981) address these issues.
Behind the camera
2012Mutirão de Limpeza do Rio Carioca
Director
2010Marajó: A Origem das Águas
Director & Screenplay
2009Monumento a Uruçumirim
Director
2009Rio Uruçumirim
Director & Screenplay
2006Pênalti - A Transgressão
Director & Writer
2005O Ouro de Serra Pelada
Director
2000Olho no Olho
Director & Screenplay
1996Rocinha 76/96
Director & Writer
1991Ñanderú - Panorâmica Tupinambá
Director
1986O Muro
Director & Writer
1981Contradições Urbanas
Director & Writer
1980Closed Cinemas
Director
1980A, B, C, Brasil
Director
1979Associação de Moradores do Guararape
Director
1978Cinemação Curtametralha
Director & Screenplay & Writer
1977Rocinha Brasil 77
Director
1974Esplendor do Martírio
Director & Screenplay
1972Pira
Director & Writer