Gabriel Mascaro
Gabriel Mascaro | |
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Nationality | Brazilian |
Occupation(s) | Film director, artist |
Years active | 2008–present |
Gabriel Mascaro (born September 24, 1983) is a Brazilian visual artist and film director.
Biography
Gabriel Mascaro is a Brazilian filmmaker and
Mascaro has received a great deal of critical attention and stirred the curiosity of film festival curators since debuting Boi Neon at the
His works have been screened or exhibited at leading festivals and events, including the
He has done artistic residencies at Videoformes, France, through Videobrasil,
Career
Gabriel Mascaro was born in Recife, the capital of the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, on September 24, 1983. He holds a degree in Social Communication from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).
He began his career in 2008 with the documentary KFZ-1348, which he co-directed with the filmmaker Marcelo Pedroso. Ostensibly a search to track down the former owners of a Volkswagen Beetle registered under the license plate KFZ-1348, the film takes the car as its main device and approaches the lives of its owners as a privileged window onto Brazilian society. The documentary won the Special Jury Prize at the 32nd São Paulo International Film Festival.[21]
His next film, High-rise (Um Lugar ao Sol) (2009), introduced him to a wider variety of international festivals, with screenings at over thirty events, including
In 2010, Mascaro launched another documentary, Avenida Brasília Formosa. “It’s a film about the disconnect between urban planning policy and the dreams and desires of the city folk”,
In 2012, Mascaro released his best-known documentary, Housemaids (Doméstica), in which he handed the camera over to seven teenagers tasked with filming their respective housemaids for the period of one week so that the director could turn the raw footage into a finished film. The final result sparked widespread debate among critics and researchers. Strategically released in commercial cinemas on
Mascaro's first fiction feature-film was released in 2014. August Winds had its international debut at the Locarno Festival, and received the best film prize[36] at the Festival Internacional du Film d'Amiens and best photography and best actress awards at the 47th Festival de Brasília.[37] The film accompanies Shirley, who leaves the big city for the quiet life in a small seaside town in order to look after her sick grandmother. She works as a tractor driver on a coconut farm, where, despite the isolation, she develops a taste for punk rock and dreams of becoming a tattoo artist.
The following year Mascaro brought out his second narrative feature, Neon Bull (Boi Neon) (2015), co-produced with Uruguayan and Dutch production companies. Neon Bull premiered at the Venice Festival's Mostra Orizzonti [2] and went on to show at the Toronto International Film Festival.[4] Its Brazilian debut was at the Rio Film Festival, where it won four prizes.[5] At the Marrakech Festival, Mascaro received the best director award from the hands of director Francis Ford Coppola, one of the jurors at the event.[38]
The film earned Mascaro international recognition and acclaim amongst film critics. A vocal fan of the film, singer/songwriter
The film's critical acclaim fuelled interest in the director's filmography. In April 2016, the curator Dennis Lim organised a retrospective at the Lincoln Center (New York) entitled “Ebbs and Flows”,[42] featuring all of Mascaro's feature-length work since High-Rise. Neon Bull was shown during the New Directors/New Films Festival, also at the Lincoln Center.[43]
In
In 2019, Mascaro's fiction film
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2008 | KFZ-1348 | Director | Documentary |
2009 | Um Lugar ao Sol | Director | Documentary Special Mention at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema Jury Prize for best documentary at the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival in Chile Jury Prize at the Rio de Janeiro International Ethnographic Cinema Exhibition[46] |
2010 | As Aventuras de Paulo Bruscky | Director | |
2010 | Av. Brasília Teimosa | Director | Documentary |
2012 | A Onda Traz o Vento Leva | Director | Documentary |
2012 | Doméstica | Director | Documentary |
2014 | Ventos de Agosto | Director | Special Mention at the Starz Denver Film Festival Best Film at the Istanbul International Independent Film Festival |
2015 | Boi Neon | Director | Warsaw International Film Festival
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2019 | Divine Love | Director |
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- ^ "Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy".
- ^ "Awards". 8 June 2020.
- ^ "Le Palmarès | Festival International du Film de Marrakech". Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
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- ^ "Locarno Film Festival". Locarno Film Festival.
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- ^ a b "Exhibition - EBB & FLOW. A Onda Traz, O Vento Leva | MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona". 31 May 2012.
- ^ "Neon Bull (Boi neon). 2015. Directed by Gabriel Mascaro | MoMA".
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- ^ "Ebb and Flow | IDFA". Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
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- ^ "FIFAM – 41e Festival International du Film d'Amiens". Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ^ "PREMIADOS DO 47º FESTIVAL DE BRASÍLIA DO CINEMA BRASILEIRO | 47º Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro". Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
- ^ Pernambuco, Diario de (12 December 2015). "Page Redirection". Diário de Pernambuco.
- ^ "O poema dos gêneros e a verdade estética de "Boi Neon" - 22/05/2016 - Ilustríssima". Folha de S.Paulo. 12 June 2023.
- ^ Kohn, Eric (18 September 2015). "Toronto Review: 'Neon Bull' is the Great Discovery of This Year's Festival".
- ^ Kohn, Eric (8 April 2016). "How Gabriel Mascaro Invented a New Kind of Cinema For 'Neon Bull' (Springboard)".
- ^ "Neon Bull". Film at Lincoln Center.
- ^ "Gabriel Mascaro: Ebbs and Flows". Film at Lincoln Center.
- ^ "'Divine Love' ('Divino amor'): Film Review | Sundance 2019". The Hollywood Reporter. 27 January 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
- ^ Ward2019-01-26T03:11:00+00:00, Sarah. "'Divine Love': Sundance Review". Screen. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
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