Sérgio Péo

History

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.

Movies

Mutirão de Limpeza do Rio Carioca
Producer
Cleaning campaign for the Carioca River carried out by residents of Guararapes and the surrounding areas exposes the fragility of urban rivers in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Mutirão de Limpeza do Rio Carioca
Director
Cleaning campaign for the Carioca River carried out by residents of Guararapes and the surrounding areas exposes the fragility of urban rivers in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Marajó: A Origem das Águas
Producer
Film started in 1991, interrupted due to technical problems and finished in 2010. The camera travels along the banks of the Amazon, focusing on the diversity of virgin flora. Walks among trails of kindling culminating in the folkloric march of Marajoara rhythms. The film is a tribute to Professor Lindalva Caetano, Researcher of Folklore Marajoara.
Marajó: A Origem das Águas
Screenplay
Film started in 1991, interrupted due to technical problems and finished in 2010. The camera travels along the banks of the Amazon, focusing on the diversity of virgin flora. Walks among trails of kindling culminating in the folkloric march of Marajoara rhythms. The film is a tribute to Professor Lindalva Caetano, Researcher of Folklore Marajoara.
Marajó: A Origem das Águas
Director
Film started in 1991, interrupted due to technical problems and finished in 2010. The camera travels along the banks of the Amazon, focusing on the diversity of virgin flora. Walks among trails of kindling culminating in the folkloric march of Marajoara rhythms. The film is a tribute to Professor Lindalva Caetano, Researcher of Folklore Marajoara.
Rio Uruçumirim
Screenplay
Rescue bridge of the Tupinambá de Uruçumirim village, headquarters of the Tamoia Confederation until 1567, when it was destroyed in a genocidal operation, commanded by Portuguese led by Estácio de Sá, with the support of the Jesuits Manuel da Nóbrega and Anchieta, here founding the city of Rio de January. Testimony and contemporary point of view from Pajé Sapaim Kamayurá.
Rio Uruçumirim
Producer
Rescue bridge of the Tupinambá de Uruçumirim village, headquarters of the Tamoia Confederation until 1567, when it was destroyed in a genocidal operation, commanded by Portuguese led by Estácio de Sá, with the support of the Jesuits Manuel da Nóbrega and Anchieta, here founding the city of Rio de January. Testimony and contemporary point of view from Pajé Sapaim Kamayurá.
Rio Uruçumirim
Director
Rescue bridge of the Tupinambá de Uruçumirim village, headquarters of the Tamoia Confederation until 1567, when it was destroyed in a genocidal operation, commanded by Portuguese led by Estácio de Sá, with the support of the Jesuits Manuel da Nóbrega and Anchieta, here founding the city of Rio de January. Testimony and contemporary point of view from Pajé Sapaim Kamayurá.
Monumento a Uruçumirim
Director
Manifesto of the Pataxó tribe, with the testimony of the chief José Guajajara, in front of the Monument to Estácio de Sá, where the Tamoios massacre took place in 1567, on the coincident day that celebrates the foundation of the city of Rio de Janeiro, 20 January.
Pênalti - A Transgressão
Producer
Discussion on football and citizenship.
Pênalti - A Transgressão
Writer
Discussion on football and citizenship.
Pênalti - A Transgressão
Director
Discussion on football and citizenship.
O Ouro de Serra Pelada
Producer
Testimonial film with Eliezer Jucá Soares, president of the Mixed Cooperative of the Garimpeiros of Serra Pelada, COMGASP. Pioneers of the mining of the great tectonic breach in the region of Araguaia, southern Pará, claim their mining rights in a region that has been the center of attention of the country and the world since the beginning of the 70s, when the Guerrilla that challenged the Military Dictatorship .
O Ouro de Serra Pelada
Editor
Testimonial film with Eliezer Jucá Soares, president of the Mixed Cooperative of the Garimpeiros of Serra Pelada, COMGASP. Pioneers of the mining of the great tectonic breach in the region of Araguaia, southern Pará, claim their mining rights in a region that has been the center of attention of the country and the world since the beginning of the 70s, when the Guerrilla that challenged the Military Dictatorship .
O Ouro de Serra Pelada
Director
Testimonial film with Eliezer Jucá Soares, president of the Mixed Cooperative of the Garimpeiros of Serra Pelada, COMGASP. Pioneers of the mining of the great tectonic breach in the region of Araguaia, southern Pará, claim their mining rights in a region that has been the center of attention of the country and the world since the beginning of the 70s, when the Guerrilla that challenged the Military Dictatorship .
Olho no Olho
Screenplay
Criticism of renowned filmmakers to the boycott of the 1976 Law that regulated the exhibition of short films in commercial movie theaters in Brazil. The success of the result of this Law fostered the production of films in this category that were very well received by the public. Olho no Olho is a denunciation of the colonialist power that strangles the national audiovisual media and aims to reformat the world in its image.
Olho no Olho
Producer
Criticism of renowned filmmakers to the boycott of the 1976 Law that regulated the exhibition of short films in commercial movie theaters in Brazil. The success of the result of this Law fostered the production of films in this category that were very well received by the public. Olho no Olho is a denunciation of the colonialist power that strangles the national audiovisual media and aims to reformat the world in its image.
Olho no Olho
Director
Criticism of renowned filmmakers to the boycott of the 1976 Law that regulated the exhibition of short films in commercial movie theaters in Brazil. The success of the result of this Law fostered the production of films in this category that were very well received by the public. Olho no Olho is a denunciation of the colonialist power that strangles the national audiovisual media and aims to reformat the world in its image.
Rocinha 76/96
Writer
The camera goes back through the alleys and alleys of the community, leading the viewer to compare, with simultaneous shots of 76 and 96, the little or almost nothing that was accomplished, the neglect of the State, the abandonment over the 20 years. Finishing with a virtual image of the colored facades, as part of the proposed urbanization.
Rocinha 76/96
Director
The camera goes back through the alleys and alleys of the community, leading the viewer to compare, with simultaneous shots of 76 and 96, the little or almost nothing that was accomplished, the neglect of the State, the abandonment over the 20 years. Finishing with a virtual image of the colored facades, as part of the proposed urbanization.
Ñanderú - Panorâmica Tupinambá
Director
Poetic rescue of the memory of our Tupinambá ancestors. Considered extinct in the 16th century. The film has the testimony of Verá Miri, Chief / Pajé of the Guarani Mimbiá tribe.
O Muro
Writer
Rehearsal with the actor Breno Moroni, interpreting the paintings executed on the Parque Lage wall by the artists who worked at the School of Visual Arts - Generation 80. Period that started the expression of the graphics / mural in Rio de Janeiro.
O Muro
Director
Rehearsal with the actor Breno Moroni, interpreting the paintings executed on the Parque Lage wall by the artists who worked at the School of Visual Arts - Generation 80. Period that started the expression of the graphics / mural in Rio de Janeiro.
Contradições Urbanas
Producer
Who owns the public space? Urban Contradictions documents the State's poorly planned interventions in public spaces, segregating social strata, the neglect of the problems resulting from this social exclusion. Condomínio Selva de Pedra, Cruzada São Sebastião, both in the upscale neighborhood of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro. And the traditional neighborhood of Catumbi: Solutions, Organizations and Contradictions. Urban Contradictions is the report of an investigation on citizen identity and the use of urban spaces.
Contradições Urbanas
Writer
Who owns the public space? Urban Contradictions documents the State's poorly planned interventions in public spaces, segregating social strata, the neglect of the problems resulting from this social exclusion. Condomínio Selva de Pedra, Cruzada São Sebastião, both in the upscale neighborhood of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro. And the traditional neighborhood of Catumbi: Solutions, Organizations and Contradictions. Urban Contradictions is the report of an investigation on citizen identity and the use of urban spaces.
Contradições Urbanas
Director
Who owns the public space? Urban Contradictions documents the State's poorly planned interventions in public spaces, segregating social strata, the neglect of the problems resulting from this social exclusion. Condomínio Selva de Pedra, Cruzada São Sebastião, both in the upscale neighborhood of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro. And the traditional neighborhood of Catumbi: Solutions, Organizations and Contradictions. Urban Contradictions is the report of an investigation on citizen identity and the use of urban spaces.
A, B, C, Brasil
Narrator
Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) that culminated in the creation of the Workers' Party - PT
A, B, C, Brasil
Director
Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) that culminated in the creation of the Workers' Party - PT
Cinemas Fechados
Director
Associação de Moradores do Guararape
Producer
Documentary of the unique Rio favela, whose property was legally acquired by the community, in the sophisticated neighborhood of Cosme Velho. Statement by the president of the Residents 'Association, denouncing the authorities for non-compliance with residents' rights.
Associação de Moradores do Guararape
Director
Documentary of the unique Rio favela, whose property was legally acquired by the community, in the sophisticated neighborhood of Cosme Velho. Statement by the president of the Residents 'Association, denouncing the authorities for non-compliance with residents' rights.
Cinemação Curtametralha
Writer
Documentary-manifest in defense of the inclusion of the Brazilian short film in the national cinema circuit, accompanying each foreign feature film as a market reserve
Cinemação Curtametralha
Producer
Documentary-manifest in defense of the inclusion of the Brazilian short film in the national cinema circuit, accompanying each foreign feature film as a market reserve
Cinemação Curtametralha
Screenplay
Documentary-manifest in defense of the inclusion of the Brazilian short film in the national cinema circuit, accompanying each foreign feature film as a market reserve
Cinemação Curtametralha
Director
Documentary-manifest in defense of the inclusion of the Brazilian short film in the national cinema circuit, accompanying each foreign feature film as a market reserve
Rocinha Brasil 77
Producer
About the Rocinha favela, the largest in Rio de Janeiro. A camera tour reveals their paths and intimacies, while the speech of their residents points to the solution of the urbanization of the favelas, in contrast to the removal proposal, a threat that hangs over everyone.
Rocinha Brasil 77
Director
About the Rocinha favela, the largest in Rio de Janeiro. A camera tour reveals their paths and intimacies, while the speech of their residents points to the solution of the urbanization of the favelas, in contrast to the removal proposal, a threat that hangs over everyone.
Esplendor do Martírio
Screenplay
Experimental trial of urban intervention in Rio de Janeiro, using moments when the country was transported, via satellite, to the World Cup, in Germany
Esplendor do Martírio
Director
Experimental trial of urban intervention in Rio de Janeiro, using moments when the country was transported, via satellite, to the World Cup, in Germany
Pira
Editor
A film in Super-8 by Sérgio Péo. Documentary scenes from everyday life and performance gestures are mixed in this fast montage of images produced on the streets of Rio. Phrases written on the asphalt (or extracted from signs and newspapers) punctuate the entire film.
Pira
Producer
A film in Super-8 by Sérgio Péo. Documentary scenes from everyday life and performance gestures are mixed in this fast montage of images produced on the streets of Rio. Phrases written on the asphalt (or extracted from signs and newspapers) punctuate the entire film.
Pira
Writer
A film in Super-8 by Sérgio Péo. Documentary scenes from everyday life and performance gestures are mixed in this fast montage of images produced on the streets of Rio. Phrases written on the asphalt (or extracted from signs and newspapers) punctuate the entire film.
Pira
Director
A film in Super-8 by Sérgio Péo. Documentary scenes from everyday life and performance gestures are mixed in this fast montage of images produced on the streets of Rio. Phrases written on the asphalt (or extracted from signs and newspapers) punctuate the entire film.