Flávia Moraes
Flávia Mello Moraes de Oliveira (born 25 April 1959, in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian Filmmaker.
She has made nearly 3,000 spots, documentaries, shorts and long feature films, music videos and concerts. She is the director of the company Film Planet.
Awards
- Three times awarded with the Caboré Prize, the distinguished Brazilian Advertising Award.
- She has received SAWA Lions, Clios, Fiaps, and a New York Festival Gold Prize.
- Having achieved an accomplished career in the Brazilian advertising market, Moraes created a prize-winning trajectory for herself as a director for the last 30 years.
- Winner of the Golden Palm in the New York Film Festival, and recipient of the prestigious Clio, Moraes was also awarded at Cannes Lions International and FIAP. In Brazil she received the special juried award from the 1st FESTRIO with “Beijo Ardente/Overdose” also winner of Video Brasil (Museum of Image and Sound/São Paulo). Moraes was also presented three times with the distinguished “Caboré”, considered the most important prize in the Brazilian advertising and television market.
- In the early 1990s, Moraes’s talent as a director caught attention outside the advertising circle with her trilogy of films based on short stories written by the Brazilian writer Luis Fernando Verissimo:
“O Brinco”/”The Earring” - (an official selection in the Berlin Film Festival), “Mentira”/“Lie” (honorable mention in the NY Film Festival), and “Olimpicos”/”Olympics”. These shorts initiated the movement “Cinema de Sucata” that produced films using the negative and sets leftover from major advertising campaigns.
- A veteran behind the camera on projects that include more than three thousand commercials, documentaries, short films and music videos, Flavia Moraes directed her first feature film "Acquaria" in December 2004.
- She produced and directed the documentary "Druptchen” focusing on Buddhist religious traditions, lensed from the point of view of a group of children, a film that earned Flavia an invitation from the Brazilian Committee to Support Tibet to document the visit of His Holiness, the XIV Dalai Lama in Brazil. “Teachings in Brazil” and “The Dalai Lama in Brazil”, were both released on DVD.
- In 2009, she produced and directed “Sou Menino do Morumbi’/”Children of Morumbi”, a music-concert that evolved into a UN documentary showing the day-to-day life of teenagers living on the edge of São Paulo.
- The Morumbi Children’s Association, brings together kids from the slums focusing on education through the teaching of music.
That same year, Moraes directed "Cartola para todos”/”Cartola for all” the concert that reunited a group of important musicians to celebrate the work of the famous Brazilian composer Cartola. This piece is part of a new documentary soon to be released.
- Pioneering projects for Branded Content, Moraes reinvented the model for independent television production in Brazil with the series: "To Frito"/”I’m fried” (MTV) and "Galera Animal”/”Animal Troup” (Rede Globo) both fully sponsored by major advertisers.
- More recently, Moraes directed "A regra do jogo”/”The Rule of the Game", which will represent Brazil in the feature "World Champion Stories" to be launched during the next World Cup and "A teu lado leve”/”Barely at your side”, the final episode of the mini series "FRONTERAS" produced by TNT and the Argentinean director Juan Campanella, who also presented the show.
- Well known for her talent in working with actors, Moraes has directed many celebrities such as Telly Savalas, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dean Cain, Ornella Muti, Fernanda Montenegro, Rodrigo Santoro, Lima Duarte, Raul Cortes, Milton Gonçalves, Sergio Mendes to name a few.
- Moraes’s work is not restricted to the screen. The director also staged the Argentinian version of the famous Brazilian play, “Stay with me tonight” by Flavio de Souza. The comedy achieved critical & public recognition in Buenos Aires. Back home, Moraes directed the awarded concert “Four Seasons”, by the duo Sandy & Jr., the first show in Brazil using spectacular special effects.
She also directed “30 years of Courage” the concert that celebrated the career of country musicians Chitão&Xororo. Both were launched on DVD by Universal Music.
- On two occasions Moraes staged the opening act for Rock’n Rio,
In 2001 (Sandy& Jr.) and in 2011 (Claudia Leitte). Each performance was attended by a crowd of over 100.000 fans. For Claudia Leitte, Moraes also staged the recital “Negalora”, filmed at Teatro Castro Alves in Salvador, Bahia, with Carlinhos Brown & Sergio Mendes as special guests.
- The work developed by Moraes for Claudia Leitte has been the strategic core for the international debut of the Brazilian singer. The music videos, “Samba” with Claudia and Ricky Martin and “Magalena” with Sergio Mendes, produced in the US had more than 2 million hits on the internet.
- For the last 21 years, Moraes was the director/partner of FilmPlanet, the company she created in 1989.
Filmplanet, developed an impressive path in the National/ International market of production within the operations of São Paulo, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Rio de Janeiro. During this time, Moraes produced and directed campaigns for brands such as Coke, Budweiser, MasterCard, Visa, Motorola, Toyota, Smirnoff, Nestle, among hundreds of others and was the first Brazilian director to be affiliated with DGA.
- In April 2012, FilmPlanet evolved into PLANET the production community, proposing a new concept for the production market.
Aligned with international trends the new PLANET opened its doors for new collaborators and directors, allowing Flavia to pursue her dream.
- No longer focused on the advertising industry nowadays Moraes is preparing her return to the stages and screens with the musical “Midsummer, a play with songs”, (David Greig & Gordin McIntyre), and the adaptation for the big screens of the awarded novel “Fiesta en la Madriguera” (Down the Rabbit hole) by Juan Pablo Villalobos.
Filmography
- 2013 - The Communication (R)evolution
- 2012 - A teu lado leve - (Episódio da Série de TV "Fronteras"para TNT)
- 2012 - Claudia Leitte - NegaLora
- 2011 - A Regra do Jogo (Episódio para Longa Metragem)
- 2010 - Galera Animal (Série de TV)
- 2010 - To Frito (Série de TV)
- 2009 - Cartola para todos (Show)
- 2007 - Sou Menino do Morumbi (Show/Documentário)
- 2003 - Acquaria
- 2001 - Quatro Estações/Rock'n&Rio (Show)
- 2000 - 30 anos de coragem (Show/DVD)
- 2000 - S&J/Quatro Estações (Show/DVD)
- 1998 - Quedate conmigo esta noche (Teatro/BsAs)
- 1991 - Olímpicos (Curta metragem)
- 1991 - Paixão Cigana (Teatro)
- 1990 - Manhattan (TV)
- 1990 - Mentira (Curta metragem)
- 1989 - O Brinco (Curta metragem)
- 1983 - Beijo Ardente (Longa metragem)
- 1981 - Love/Love/Love (Teatro/ProduçãoExec)