Felipe Cataldo

Felipe Cataldo is a film director and screenwriter, also a poet and still photographer author of the book "22" (Verve Publisher) with poems and black & white photos of his conception. Directed short films, most of them experimental-fiction, displayed on Cinema Festivals and Art Events worldwide. In 2020 released his first feature film "Benjamim Zambraia and the Selfpanoptic". "Monocelular" (2009) was shot in super-8 format and hand processed in a home laboratory, using tonning over silver nitrate and chemical interventions with chlorine afterwards. The film was selected to Cambridge International Film Festival in United Kingdon, where he did a lecture at Murray Edwards College - University of Cambridge about his unusual aesthetic, especially connected to the ways of manipulating the celluloid itself, doing a kind of pictorial-cinema. The film was also selected to Festival dés Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Festival Itinerante de Curtas Latinos (several countries), Curta-8 - Brazil International Super-8 Festival in Curitiba, Super-Off - International Super-8 Festival of São Paulo and CineMúsica - Cinema and Music Festival of Conservatória. He also directed the short film "Trago a pessoa amada em três dias" ("Drag the loved one in three days") in 16mm. The film was selected to Jaipur International Film Festival (India), Curta Santos (16mm competition), MFL - Mostra do Filme Livre, Cineclube Mate com Angu (Duque de Caxias), Jardim Suspenso no Morro da Babilônia (Rio de Janeiro) and Mostra de Curtas Cariocas (Natal). Felipe Cataldo works as Cinema teacher as well, in several projects, doing short films with the students, both fiction and documentary. As an actor he worked on the TV series "Cilada" (Multishow Broadcast) by the Brazilian comedian Bruno Mazzeo, on the feature film "Finding a horseshoe on the beaches of Rio" by Lionel Combecau, starring the Brazilian singer Silvia Machete, and on several short films as "Salomé" by Igor Cabral, from the play by Oscar Wilde. One of his verses: "Cinema is a shadow circus".