Fábio Barreto
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Barreto during the premiere of Lula, o filho do Brasil at the 2009 Brasília Film Festival.
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Fábio Villela Barreto Borges June 6, 1957 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Spouse(s) | Déborah Kalume (2003–present) |
Fábio Barreto (born June 6, 1957) is a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known for directing and co-writing Lula, o filho do Brasil, a biography based on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's early life, which had been the most expensive film in the history of Brazilian cinema upon its release. He slipped into a coma after being involved in a car accident in Rio de Janeiro and, as of August 2014, is reported to be in a minimally conscious state.
Barreto was born on 1957 in Rio de Janeiro. He is the youngest son of well-known movie producers Luís Carlos and Lucy Barreto. His brother is the fellow filmmaker Bruno Barreto, responsible for the 1976 international box office hit Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, starring Sônia Braga.
He started his career in 1977, at age 20, directing the short subject A estória de José e Maria. Since then, he acted in two films — Nelson Pereira dos Santos' Memórias do Cárcere (1984), and his father's For all - O trampolim da vitória (1997) — and directed nine feature films, the Brazilian version of Desperate Housewives, an episode of TV series Você Decide and two other short films.
His first feature was Índia, a Filha do Sol, starring Glória Pires as a Native-Brazilian who tries to survive the brutality of diamond mining in Central-Western Brazil and ends up falling in love with a white soldier. The film score was composed by Caetano Veloso, which Barreto would later criticize for calling Lula an "illiterate". In 1986 he directed O Rei do Rio, based on a play by Dias Gomes, which tells the story of two friends who enrich through illegal gambling game jogo do bicho and became rivals in the struggle for political power. Both films featured Nuno Leal Maia as the leading male star.
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