Lauro Escorel

Lauro Escorel

Nacimiento : 1950-01-05, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Perfil

Lauro Escorel

Películas

Kobra Self-Portrait
Cinematography
Sleepless all night, Kobra remembers his life, from the poor childhood in the outskirts of São Paulo to the international recognition of his work. The events unfold between reality and dream. In an intimate journey, we get to know a rebellious, self-taught youngster doing graffiti illegally on the streets of São Paulo's suburbs, up to worldwide fame as a muralist and peace activist.
O Pai da Rita
Director of Photography
Roque and Pudim, composers from the old school of Vai-Vai, share a kitchnete, decades of friendship, love for their samba school and a doubt about the past: what happened to dancer Rita, their passion. The emergence of Ritinha, the dancer's daughter, threatens to collapse this great friendship.
Sars-CoV-2: O Tempo da Pandemia
Cinematography
Seven doctors and public health specialists accept the mission to fight the pandemic, working voluntarily. This unforeseen task in the careers of Paulo Chapchap, Maurício Ceschin, Gonzalo Vecina, Drauzio Varella, Sidney Klajner, Eugênio Vilaça and Pedro Barbosa is commented on by them. In addition to following this committee, the documentary brings reports from frontline professionals, working in São Paulo and Manaus, about the experience of going to Covid-19 to take care of patients and the elderly.
Sars-CoV-2: O Tempo da Pandemia
Director
Seven doctors and public health specialists accept the mission to fight the pandemic, working voluntarily. This unforeseen task in the careers of Paulo Chapchap, Maurício Ceschin, Gonzalo Vecina, Drauzio Varella, Sidney Klajner, Eugênio Vilaça and Pedro Barbosa is commented on by them. In addition to following this committee, the documentary brings reports from frontline professionals, working in São Paulo and Manaus, about the experience of going to Covid-19 to take care of patients and the elderly.
Fotografação
Writer
A film about remarkable moments in the History of Brazilian Photography, built through the eyes of Lauro Escorel. It also reflects on the impact of digital photography on contemporary society.
Fotografação
Director
A film about remarkable moments in the History of Brazilian Photography, built through the eyes of Lauro Escorel. It also reflects on the impact of digital photography on contemporary society.
O Lodo
Director of Photography
A Fera na Selva
Director of Photography
A Fera na Selva
Co-Director
Improvável Encontro
Director
Chico - Brazilian Artist
Director of Photography
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.
Golden Oldies 2
Director of Photography
The heroes of Golden Oldies 1— Juca, PR, and Montanha — are back, following different routes. Montanha lives in an old mansion and gets ready to reunite with his friends. Once together again, the three friends get into hilarious situations.
Giovanni Improtta
Director of Photography
Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citizen. To achieve it, he commits some more crimes He is betrayed, and ends up under the spotlight of the media and the radar of the police, falsely charged for murder.
Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo!
Director of Photography
Extrema Felicidad
Director of Photography
Una mirada atrás a la edad dorada, a las "épocas felices". Paulo fija su primer recuerdo en los festejos en las calles brasileras por el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial de la mano de sus padres. Desde ahí recorreremos los años cincuenta, y los personajes típicos de la sociedad brasilera de aquella época; la relación con su mejor amigo y con sus padres y abuelo. Una visita a un cabaret y el encuentro sorpresivo con su padre cambiará la historia de las relaciones de una manera fascinante.
The Story of Me
Director of Photography
Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.
Before and After S. Bernardo
Director
Extras from the remastered DVD of the film São Bernardo by Leon Hirszman. The process of restoring the film, with testimonials from actors and the film's technical team.
Golden Oldies
Director of Photography
Quatro amigos que só pensam em curtir a vida, com grandes farras, mulheres e bebidas, são surpreendidos com uma ação de despejo. Precisando de dinheiro, a turma é obrigada a pensar naquilo que mais abominam: trabalhar! A confusão está formada quando cada um busca um meio fácil de conseguir dinheiro, com o mínimo de esforço. Os dias se passam as confusões hilárias só aumentam!
Baptism of Blood
Director of Photography
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.
The Greatest Love of All
Director of Photography
Antônio is an astrophysicist who has just found out he has an inoperable brain tumor. After decades living in the United States, he returns to Brazil and tries to learn more about his biological mother. His quest sends him off into the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Irma Vap: O Retorno
Director of Photography
After many flops, theatrical producer decides to stage a former hit, "O Mistério de Irma Vap". But he is going to face many problems to find the right actors and get the necessary permissions.
Depois do Transe
The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martim Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
Acquária
Director of Photography
The planet Earth is devastated by the lack of water. Desert and arid, left this place few living beings , who had to adapt to the new bioma.2 Isolated in small communities , living separated...
The Xango from Baker Street
Director of Photography
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve the case.
Domésticas
Director of Photography
Comedia sobre cinco empleadas domésticas brasileñas que expresan sus desventuras y azares.
Corazón iluminado
Director of Photography
Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a clinic because she was "crazy." Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a door-to-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a Hollywood director.
Dib
Critical Choices
Director of Photography
A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.
Voices
Director of Photography
A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.
Rescate familiar
Director of Photography
Stuart, un personaje de bajo autoestima y adicto a los grupos de recuperación, debe enfrentarse a un cúmulo de problemas. Y es que su padre es alcohólico, su hermano, drogadicto, y su madre y su hermana tienen problemas con sus maridos.
Amelia Earhart: El vuelo final
Director of Photography
Un relato sobre la vida de la famosa aviadora estadounidense Amelia Earhart (Keaton), que en 1937 intentó volar en solitario alrededor del mundo y desapareció durante el viaje sin dejar rastro.
Dangerous Heart
Director of Photography
A cop begins to turn to booze and cocaine during a tough undercover assignment. When a big drug-buy goes sour and the cop ends up with a million in cash, he decides to take off with the money. The drug dealer catches up with him, but he dies before revealing where he stashed the cash. Months later, the drug dealer finds the cop's wife and seduces her, in an effort to find his missing million. In the process, he falls in love with her and alienates his former partners in crime.
Indecency
Director of Photography
Thriller about three friends who work in an advertising agency, one of whom has a nervous breakdown. Upon her recovery, she embarks upon an affair with her former employer's husband, with deadly consequences.
The Memory Thread
Executive Producer
A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos.
Jugando en los campos del Señor
Director of Photography
Un grupo de misioneros se instala en la profunda selva amazónica con la intención de evangelizar a los indios niaruna. Mientras tanto, un par de mercenarios tienen órdenes de masacrar la tribu.
Better Days Ahead
Director of Photography
Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star.
Tallo de hierro
Director of Photography
Son los años de la Gran Depresión. Tras sufrir un trágico accidente, Francis Phelan, un antiguo jugador de béisbol, abandona a su familia y se convierte en un borracho errante. Tanto él como su novia y compañera de borracheras, intentan escapar del doloroso recuerdo de un pasado que los persigue.
Deus é um Fogo
Cinematography
Sonho Sem Fim
Writer
The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeiro, until his filming of the 1930 Revolution. To promote his films, Abelim would even perform car stunts, give classes on the occult and offer guidance on mystical matters.
Sonho Sem Fim
Director
The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeiro, until his filming of the 1930 Revolution. To promote his films, Abelim would even perform car stunts, give classes on the occult and offer guidance on mystical matters.
Love Me Forever or Never
Director of Photography
Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship.
Quilombo
Director of Photography
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
Chico Antônio, o Herói com Caráter
Director of Photography
The rescue of a real character from the work of Mario de Andrade. Chico Antônio is a singer and poacher of the interior of Rio Grande do Norte. As he climbed the stems to reach the fruits, he sang and enchanted those who passed by. And Mário de Andrade was one of those spectators, because he loved the warm climate of the equatorial lands
Los que no usan corbata
Director of Photography
En São Paulo, en 1980, el joven obrero Tião y su novia María deciden casarse al saber que ella está embarazada. Al mismo tiempo, estalla una huelga en la fábrica donde trabaja Tião. El movimiento divide a los operarios. El temor a perder su trabajo y a no poder hacer frente a sus obligaciones, lo lleva a oponerse a la huelga y, por lo tanto, a su padre, un sindicalista que estuvo en la cárcel en los primeros años de la dictadura. (FILMAFFINITY)
Act of Violence
Cinematography
Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.
Prova de Fogo
Director of Photography
As soon as Mauro, an Administration student, discovers a strong vocation for mediumship, he drops everything to go deeper and dedicate himself to Umbanda, a religion he embraces so strongly that it makes him give up his studies. Determined to open his own spiritist center, Mauro moves to the countryside.
Bye Bye Brazil
Director of Photography
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe.
Outlaw Love
Director of Photography
Rio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracts a serial killer of taxi-drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, Sandra, who he had thrown out of the family home when she adopted a promiscuous teenage lifestyle. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, a young man of unsavoury connections, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio.
Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
Director of Photography
In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
Sea of Roses
Director of Photography
A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.
Morte e Vida Severina
Director of Photography
The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life.
Choque Cultural
Camera Operator
Lúcio Flávio, the Passenger of the Agony
Director of Photography
History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies and his fight against a death squad.
Libertários
Writer
A Documentary about the history of the anarchist-led workers' movement in Brazil. It shows the transformation of immigrants into the first urban workers and chronicles the most important strikes, the successes and defeats of the movement, from the end of the 19th Century until 1922.
Libertários
Producer
A Documentary about the history of the anarchist-led workers' movement in Brazil. It shows the transformation of immigrants into the first urban workers and chronicles the most important strikes, the successes and defeats of the movement, from the end of the 19th Century until 1922.
Libertários
Editor
A Documentary about the history of the anarchist-led workers' movement in Brazil. It shows the transformation of immigrants into the first urban workers and chronicles the most important strikes, the successes and defeats of the movement, from the end of the 19th Century until 1922.
Libertários
Researcher
A Documentary about the history of the anarchist-led workers' movement in Brazil. It shows the transformation of immigrants into the first urban workers and chronicles the most important strikes, the successes and defeats of the movement, from the end of the 19th Century until 1922.
Libertários
Director
A Documentary about the history of the anarchist-led workers' movement in Brazil. It shows the transformation of immigrants into the first urban workers and chronicles the most important strikes, the successes and defeats of the movement, from the end of the 19th Century until 1922.
King of the Night
Director of Photography
Sought after by several reputable women, a bohemian becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
Toda desnudez será castigada
Director of Photography
Un joven rico y mimado se encuentra con una prostituta y confunde la naturaleza de sus sentimiendos por ella, sin poder decidir entre la atracción y la repulsión.
S. Bernardo
Director of Photography
The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
Padre Cícero
Director of Photography
O Engenho
Director of Photography
The process of production of rapadura in the Brazilian state of Ceará.
Jaramataia
Assistant Director of Photography
Life on the Jaramataia farm in the interior of Paraíba and the relations between the cowboys and the owners of the land.
A Família do Barulho
Director of Photography
A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gays, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens the other two to stop supporting them, they decide to find an odalisque as an alternative to keep their easy life.
Meu Nome é Gal
Director of Photography
Gal Costa in her privacy. Unkempt hair, colorful clothes, many necklaces and rings, she and the streets of downtown Rio. She laughs a lot, gestures and sings. Rio's landscapes such as Lage Park, a quiet place in the neighborhood of Gávea, an active factory.
Viva Cariri
Director of Photography
The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.
Os Imaginários
Director of Photography
Frei Damião: Trombeta dos Aflitos, Martelo dos Herejes
Additional Camera
A Morte do Boi
Camera Operator
América do Sexo
Director of Photography
Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of its subjects.