Adriano Goldman

Adriano Goldman

Biografía

São Paulo-born Adriano Goldman lensed Jane Eyre, which stars Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska, and marks his second collaboration with director Cary Fukunaga. They first partnered on the immigrant thriller Sin Nombre that earned Goldman his first Independent Spirit Award nomination and the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Goldman also shot Tony Goldwyn's Conviction, starring Hilary Swank, which received a number of nominations and awards.

The award-winning Goldman got his start as a camera operator for director/producer Fernando Meirelles' company and soon after directed and photographed his first short, Is Reinaldo Still Swimming which won top prizes at both the Sao Paolo Fotoptica Video Festival and the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba.

Over the next decade, he earned his stripes in the commercial and music video world by forging a strong relationship with MTV Brazil, where he directed the inaugural acoustic program Unplugged for the popular music network as well as Sepultura's rendition of Orgasmatron, which took home the International Viewer's Choice Award at the MTV Video Music Awards. Goldman's musical prowess enabled him to capture the raw spontaneity on the live concert films Memories and Chronicles and Declarations of Love for acclaimed female vocalist Marisa Monte, and Kaya N'Gab Daya for Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil.

In 2002, he reteamed with Meirelles to shoot the first of eventually four seasons of the TV Globo/O2 Filmes smash hit television series City of Men, based on the visionary filmmaker's City of God. Goldman's dazzling work in spotlighting two teens living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro earned him the ABC Trophy for Best Cinematography in a Television Series. The team embarked on the feature film version helmed by Paulo Morelli in 2006, which was released domestically by Miramax and served as a fitting coda for the 35 million faithful viewers. Goldman's color-infused, handheld camerawork was instrumental in depicting the emotional plight of these sympathetic characters.

Amongst his other credits are the Brazilian version of the popular Canadian Shakespeare series Slings & Arrows for Fernando Meirelles and two high-profile series for HBO Latin America: the 13-episode arc Alice and the Cao Hamburger-helmed Sons of the Carnival, for which Goldman garnered his second ABC trophy. Other notable films include Romance by Guel Arraes, Casseta & Planeta: The Cup is Ours directed by Lula Buarque, Bruno Barreto's Romeo and Juliet Get Married, and Hamburger's The Year My Parents Went On Vacation, which netted Goldman his third ABC trophy win for Best Cinematography, this time for a feature film.

Magnolia Pictures

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