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Hermes Leal is a documentary director. He directed about
12 documentaries. Hermes has post-graduation level in Cinema
at ECA/USP (Communications and Arts College -University of
São Paulo). He wrote three feature film scripts and
published three books. Nowadays he is the editor of Revista
de CINEMA, the most important publication of the Brazilian
movie business. Hermes Leal has studied cinema for more than
20 years. He has already worked for movie producers in São
Paulo and in the 90's he used to work for television programs
in the most important TV broadcasting companies. He was the
journalism and art director of Rede Manchete for nine years.
On TV he has created and directed many programs. Among them
it is to mention Na Rota do Crime, a program that brought
up a new language to realistic journalism. It was also the
audience leader program at Rede Manchete while it was on the
air. Hermes Leal wrote the book Coronel Fawcett, a Verdadeira
História de Indiana Jones, the first biography about
the famous English colonel that disappeared in Brazil in 1925
while looking for a supposedly lost city. His story became
a legend inspiring adventurous people from all over the world.
This book has reached its third edition all sold out within
Brazil and Japan and it will be available in the USA and Europe
in 2004. Its rights were already sold for movie
broadcasting.
Hermes also wrote Quilombo, uma Aventura no Vão das
Almas, about a community of black people living 300 km away
from Brasilia that has never been in contact with white people.
In 98, he published the book Eu Sou Foda! A book that caused
polemic opinions right from its releasing, with controversial
comments from professors to bookstores. A script wrote by
Hermes was his thesis for master degree at USP concerning
the 'arte do roteiro, um estudo das estruturas narrativas'
(T.N.: suggestion title for this thesis: "Script artform,
a study of narrative
structures"). This script won the Sundance work-up prize
in 2003, selected among more than 200 work pieces. Cide e
Alice is his first fiction film.
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