Jorge Furtado

Jorge Furtado

Personal Info

  • Name:

    Jorge Furtado

  • Birthday:

    1959-06-09

  • Place of Birth: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Gender:

    Male

  • Know For:

    Directing

  • Popularity: 0.1526
  • Also Known As

Jorge Furtado

Biography

Jorge Alberto Furtado (born June 9, 1959) is a Brazilian film and television director and screenwriter.

Furtado attended university for courses in medicine, psychology, journalism, and arts, but did not graduate. He began his professional career in the 1980s on a local channel TVE-RS working as a reporter, presenter, editor, screenwriter, and producer. In 1982 created a TV show Quizumba, which mixed fiction and documentary with very audacious language for the Brazilian public television.

Between 1984 and 1986, Furtado was director of the museum Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito José da Costa in Porto Alegre. At the same time, with the help of José Pedro Goulart and Ana Luiza Azevedo, he created the company Luz Produções, where he made two short films and produced plays for theater. From 1986 to 1990, he made dozens of TV commercials.

In 1987, he was one of the founders of Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre, in which he still participates. In 1990, he worked on TV Globo making scripts for many TV series. In 2008, Harvard University promoted an exhibition of his films called "Jorge Furtado's Porto Alegre".

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Cretinália
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As Últimas Videolocadoras de Porto Alegre
As Últimas Videolocadoras de Porto Alegretrue

Release Date

0.0
Inacreditável: A Batalha dos Aflitos
Inacreditável: A Batalha dos Aflitostrue- Himself

2006-08-25

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The Screenwriter
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2012-01-01

8.0
A Linguagem do Cinema
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2001-03-15

6.0
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2008-01-22

7.9
Quem É Primavera das Neves
Quem É Primavera das Nevestrue- Self

2017-04-22

5.5
Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
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1991-07-11

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Ilha das Flores: Depois Que A Sessão Acabou
Ilha das Flores: Depois Que A Sessão Acaboutrue- Self (archive footage)

2011-12-15

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1991-01-01

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7.5
The Man Who Copied
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2003-06-13

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Isle of Flowers
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Basic Sanitation, the Movie
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Basic Sanitation, the Movie
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1986-04-11

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1988-06-23

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The Day Dorival Faced the Guard
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Até a Vista
Até a Vistatrue

Writing

2012-05-01

0.0
The Staple of News
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Directing

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8.7
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2000-01-01

8.2
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2000-01-01

8.2
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O Debate
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0.0
Veja Bem
Veja Bemtrue

Directing

1994-01-02

0.0
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1997-01-02

0.0
Estrada
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1995-01-02

8.0
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2004-01-02

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This Is Not Your Life
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1991-01-02

7.8
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Real Beleza
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1994-01-02

0.0
Virgínia e Adelaide
Virgínia e Adelaidetrue

Directing

2025-05-08

7.0
Virgínia e Adelaide
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2025-05-08

7.0
Homens de Bem
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2011-12-29

10.0
Toll
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Production

2023-09-08

7.6
Ângelo Anda Sumido
Ângelo Anda Sumidotrue

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1997-01-02

0.0
Cretinália
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2020-09-03

0.0
Estrada
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0.0
Veja Bem
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1994-01-02

0.0
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2023-10-12

6.8
Oscar Boz
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2004-01-02

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This Is Not Your Life
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1991-01-02

7.8
This Is Not Your Life
This Is Not Your Lifetrue

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1991-01-02

7.8
Real Beleza
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Benjamim
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2003-10-21

4.6
My Uncle Killed a Guy
My Uncle Killed a Guytrue

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2004-12-12

6.1
Velázquez e a Teoria Quântica da Gravidade
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2011-07-29

0.0
Velázquez e a Teoria Quântica da Gravidade
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Caramuru: Brazil Reinvented
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2001-11-09

6.3
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2024-04-04

7.2
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2008-11-14

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2014-05-30

7.5
Sweet Mother
Sweet Mothertrue

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2012-12-27

8.7
Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil
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2020-10-21

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Quem É Primavera das Neves
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2017-04-22

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Rummikub
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Rummikub
Rummikubtrue

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2007-01-01

0.0
Felicidade É...
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0.0
Before the World Ends
Before the World Endstrue

Writing

2010-08-20

5.9
Homens de Bem
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2011-12-29

10.0
Rend Your Heart
Rend Your Hearttrue

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2018-10-15

7.2
Rend Your Heart
Rend Your Hearttrue

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2018-10-15

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Through Ernesto's Eyestrue

Writing

2019-10-04

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6.0
Dona Silvia não gostava de música
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1991-01-01

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O Vampiro de Novo Hamburgo
O Vampiro de Novo Hamburgotrue

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1991-01-01

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2004-06-16

4.0
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2020-09-03

0.0
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2002-08-14

6.0
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2025-04-25

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7.0
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2020-12-25

6.6
Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat
Gilda, Lúcia and The Goattrue

Writing

2020-12-25

6.6

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