Director
Jorge Furtado
June 9, 1959 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Janaína Kremer
5 titles together
My Uncle Killed a Guy, Basic Sanitation, the Movie, Two Summers
Lázaro Ramos
4 titles together
The Man Who Copied, My Uncle Killed a Guy, Basic Sanitation, the Movie
Júlio Andrade
4 titles together
The Man Who Copied, My Uncle Killed a Guy, Under Pressure
Sérgio Lulkin
4 titles together
My Uncle Killed a Guy, Basic Sanitation, the Movie, Sweet Mother
Tonico Pereira
4 titles together
Basic Sanitation, the Movie, Caramuru: Brazil Reinvented, O Coronel e o Lobisomem
Paulo José
3 titles together
The Man Who Copied, Isle of Flowers, Basic Sanitation, the Movie
Full filmography · 62
As Últimas Videolocadoras de Porto Alegre
cast
Upcoming
Maria do Socorro
Writer
Upcoming
Virgínia e Adelaide
Director and Writer
2025
A Fábrica de Sonhos
Writer
2025
Great Sertão
Writer
2024
Luis Fernando Verissimo - O Filme
cast
2023
O Debate
Writer
2022
Vai Dar Nada
Writer and Director
2022
Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat
Writer
2020
Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil
Writer
2020
Rend Your Heart
Writer and Director
2018
True Beauty
Director
2015