Mauro Pinheiro Jr.

Nacimiento : 1971-01-01, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Películas

Malu
Director of Photography
Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.
The Book of Delights
Director of Photography
En una era de romances desechables y apatía emocional, una solitaria maestra brasileña conoce a un provocador maestro argentino y comienzan un juego de seducción y amor. Adaptación libre de la novela de Clarice Lispector, O livro dos prazeres es un fascinante drama erótico acerca de los riesgos de amar.
I Owe You a Letter About Brazil
Director of Photography
César Benjamin was arrested in August 1971 during student protests against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Although he was a juvenile, he was tried as an adult and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Thanks to the ardent campaigning of his mother Iramaya, working closely together with the Swedish branch of Amnesty International, he was released five years later.
Amores Modernos
Director of Photography
Un grupo de hermanos se reencuentra tras una tragedia familiar.
A família de Olga
Director of Photography
Unicorn
Director of Photography
A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. They are awaiting the return of their father and husband. But instead, another man appears, transforming the relationship between the mother and daughter. Based on two short stories by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst.
Mi Amigo Hindú
Director of Photography
Diego es un director de cine que, al enterarse que su enfermedad maligna puede ser fatal, se casa con su mujer de muchos años, se despide de sus amigos y entra en una rutina de largas jornadas en un hospital. Lidiando con el dolor y conversando con la muerte conoce a un niño hindú, que se vuelve su más nuevo amigo. Un día, el niño ya no aparece. Diego recibe alta, pero su vida ya no será la misma. Se acaba su matrimonio y, solitario, empieza a cuestionarse si no se está muriendo y nadie le dice nada, hasta que conoce una nueva mujer...
Blue Blood
Director of Photography
When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.
Luna en Brasil
Editor
Brasil, años 50. Narra la historia de amor entre Elizabeth Bishop, gran poeta estadounidense que ganó el Premio Pulitzer, y Lota de Macedo Soares, una arquitecta brasileña que diseñó y supervisó la construcción del Flamengo Park. Bishop, una mujer emocionalmente frágil. Lota, que es optimista y confiada, altera la vida de la escritora, que se hace más fuerte a medida que se va enamorando de ella.
Luna en Brasil
Director of Photography
Brasil, años 50. Narra la historia de amor entre Elizabeth Bishop, gran poeta estadounidense que ganó el Premio Pulitzer, y Lota de Macedo Soares, una arquitecta brasileña que diseñó y supervisó la construcción del Flamengo Park. Bishop, una mujer emocionalmente frágil. Lota, que es optimista y confiada, altera la vida de la escritora, que se hace más fuerte a medida que se va enamorando de ella.
Once Upon a Time Veronica
Director of Photography
Veronica, a young woman, lives in Recife, one of the most violent cities in Brazil. Her life is filled with fleeting love affairs and passing romances. As her father feels his death approaching, he asks a favor: that she finds true love before he passes away.
Southwest
Director of Photography
In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.
The Silver Cliff
Director of Photography
Violeta is a married dentist on a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma, says he is leaving her and going to another city.
VIPs
Director of Photography
Desde la infancia, Marcelo da Rocha es muy difícil de vivir con su identidad. Su mayor placer es imitar a la gente y pasar por otras. La alimentación de los sueños de aprender a volar y convertirse en un piloto como su padre, la madre de Marcelo se escapa y comienza su mayor aventura de su vida, cada vez que se hacen pasar por una persona diferente. Para dar el mayor golpe de su vida: hacerse pasar por el empresario Henrique Constantino, hijo del dueño de la aerolínea Gol, en una gran fiesta en Recife.
Las mejores cosas del mundo
Director of Photography
Manuel tiene 15 años, le gusta tocar guitarra, besar a su chica en la boca, reir con los amigos, andar en bicicleta y bailar una balada. Un suceso en su familia hace que perciba que la vida de un adulto no siempre es tarea facil, entre tantos desafios, la popularidad de la escuela, su primera relacion sexual, las relaciones en su casa, sus propias inseguridades, los preconceptos y el descubrimiento del amor. Manu descubre o inventa las mejores cosas del mundo.
Sunstroke
Director of Photography
In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert.
Línea de pase
Director of Photography
Inspirada en gran parte en hechos reales, cuenta la historia de cuatro hermanos que buscan su camino en la vida. De padres diferentes, los cuatro viven con su madre, empleada doméstica que espera otro hijo, de padre desconocido.
Mutum
Director of Photography
Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
A cada uno su cine (Chacun son cinéma)
Cinematography
Reunión de 33 cortometrajes de unos tres minutos cada uno realizados por 35 directores con motivo del 60 aniversario del Festival de Cannes.
A cada uno su cine (Chacun son cinéma)
Director of Photography
Reunión de 33 cortometrajes de unos tres minutos cada uno realizados por 35 directores con motivo del 60 aniversario del Festival de Cannes.
The Beginning of the End
Editor
He should flee, he should resist. But this man accepts - no - embraces the fate that comes to him in thundering Dolby Surround.
The Beginning of the End
Director of Photography
He should flee, he should resist. But this man accepts - no - embraces the fate that comes to him in thundering Dolby Surround.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Director of Photography
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
O Poço
Director of Photography
Two brothers, one straight one gay reopen old childhood issues.
O Velho, O Mar e O Lago
Director of Photography
The Old Man, The Sea and The Lake
Rota de Colisão
Director of Photography
After a robbery, a thief, a worker and a street boy have their ways crossed.
Terral
Director of Photography