About
Sérgio Péo was born in Pará in 1947 and at the age of 12 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he lives. He is an architect / urban planner, filmmaker, poet, visual artist. He studied architecture and urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and soon started to use cinema to question housing conditions and urban behavior in the city. His films Pira (1972), Na Maré Com Ho Chi Minh (1974), Rocinha Brasil 77, (awarded at the Jornada de Salvador and honorable mention at the Obenhauser Festival, Germany); Associação dos Moradores dos Guararapes (best short film at the Gramado Festival in 1979), and Urban Contradictions (1981) address these issues.
Filmography
Mutirão de Limpeza do Rio Carioca2012 · Director, Producer
Marajó: A Origem das Águas2010 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
Rio Uruçumirim2009 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Monumento a Uruçumirim2009 · Director
Pênalti - A Transgressão2006 · Director, Producer, Writer
O Ouro de Serra Pelada2005 · Director, Editor, Producer
Olho no Olho2000 · Producer, Screenplay, Director
Rocinha 76/961996 · Director, Writer
Ñanderú - Panorâmica Tupinambá1991 · Director
O Muro1986 · Director, Writer
Contradições Urbanas1981 · Director, Producer, Writer
A, B, C, Brasil1980 · Director
Closed Cinemas1980 · Director
Associação de Moradores do Guararape1979 · Director, Producer
Cinemação Curtametralha1978 · Producer, Writer, Screenplay, Director
Rocinha Brasil 771977 · Producer, Director
Esplendor do Martírio1974 · Screenplay, Director
Pira1972 · Director, Editor, Producer, Writer