Rodrigo de Oliveira

Born

1985-02-06

Birthplace

Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Biography

Rodrigo de Oliveira is a director, writer and editor, born in Brazil in 1985. He won a Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro, the Brazilian Oscars, for the feature doc "All The Paulos in The World” (2018). Rodrigo began his career with Brazilian indie hits "The Vulgar Hours” (2011) and "Tybalt Dead, Romeo in Exile” (2015) and three award-winning shorts. In 2021 his fourth feature, "The First Fallen”, gathered prizes from festivals in Germany, USA, India, Switzerland, Argentina and Brazil. That same year, the prestigious Cinemateca do MAM, at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art (MAM-Rio) showed a complete retrospective of his oeuvre. In 2023, he released the feature doc "Lô Borges - All This Water”.