Felipe Quintelas

Birth : 1986-07-04, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

History

Felipe Quintelas holds a bachelor’s degree in Cinema from Universidade Federal Fluminense (2013), including an exchange program in Cinematography at École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière (2011-2012), in Paris. In 2012, he cinematographed the short film “The viewers”, directed by Pierre Loup-Docteur, which was nominated to the Student Etudes Competition award at the International Film Festival Camerimage 2013. In 2013, he returned to Paris to cinematograph in 16mm the film “La grenouille et Dieu”, by Alice Furtado, at Le Fresnoy. He also worked as the director of photography in a series of other short films, as well as in the television program “À moda da casa” (2015). More recently, he cinematographed his first fiction feature film, “Sick Sick Sick” (2019), directed by Alice Furtado, which was selected to the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival.

Movies

Neon Phantom
Director of Photography
A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.
Sick Sick Sick
Director of Photography
Silvia is an introspective young girl who is not interested in the daily routine between family and school. Everything abruptly changes when Artur arrives unexpectedly in her class, after being banned from several other schools. Silvia is amazed by the vitality of the boy, who actually suffers from a serious illness – hemophilia. The two immerse themselves in an intense and brief coexistence, interrupted by an accident in which Artur’s bleeds to death. Silvia gets sick and sees her life turn into a strange nightmare. The mourning gradually becomes an obsession, and obsession becomes a goal – Silvia will do anything to bring him back to life.
Heterônimo
Cinematography
Mariana lives at the bottom of the sea. One day, her teacher Cecília introduces her to Christian, a prince from another world.