Sérgio Péo
Known for
Directing
Biography
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.
Best known work
A, B, C, Brasil
1980
Esplendor do Martírio
1974
Marajó: A Origem das Águas
2010
Cinemação Curtametralha
1978
Monumento a Uruçumirim
2009
Rocinha Brasil 77
1977
O Muro
1986
Olho no Olho
2000
Rocinha 76/96
1996
O Ouro de Serra Pelada
2005Filmography
2012
Mutirão de Limpeza do Rio CariocaDirector, Producer
2010
Marajó: A Origem das ÁguasScreenplay, Director, Producer
2009
Rio UruçumirimDirector, Producer, Screenplay
2009
Monumento a UruçumirimDirector
2006
Pênalti - A TransgressãoDirector, Producer, Writer
2005
O Ouro de Serra PeladaDirector, Editor, Producer
2000
Olho no OlhoProducer, Screenplay, Director
1996
Rocinha 76/96Director, Writer
1991
Ñanderú - Panorâmica TupinambáDirector
1986
O MuroDirector, Writer
1981
Contradições UrbanasDirector, Producer, Writer
1980
A, B, C, Brasilas Narrator, Director
1980
Closed CinemasDirector
1979
Associação de Moradores do GuararapeDirector, Producer
1978
Cinemação CurtametralhaProducer, Writer, Screenplay, Director
1977
Rocinha Brasil 77Producer, Director
1974
Esplendor do MartírioScreenplay, Director
1972
PiraDirector, Editor, Producer, Writer