Adriana Falcão
Encyclopedia
Adriana Falcão is an Academy Award-nominated Brazil
ian screenwriter
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at 11 years old. She had a tragic life story: her father committed suicide
and mother after a while, took a fatal dose of sleeping pills.
was The Machine (A máquina); as a screenwriter wrote for series such as Comedy privacy (Comédias da vida privada), A grande familia (A large family, also wrote the screenplays for the film
. Currently publishes chronic in the paper O Estado de Sao Paulo.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
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Life
Graduated in Architecture, but never exercised the function. Born in Rio, and moved to RecifeRecife
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at 11 years old. She had a tragic life story: her father committed suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
and mother after a while, took a fatal dose of sleeping pills.
Works
Her first novelNovel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
was The Machine (A máquina); as a screenwriter wrote for series such as Comedy privacy (Comédias da vida privada), A grande familia (A large family, also wrote the screenplays for the film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
. Currently publishes chronic in the paper O Estado de Sao Paulo.
Television
- Só Dez por Cento é Mentira (2008) - Producer
- Eu e Meu Guarda-Chuva (2010)
- Se Eu Fosse Você 2 (2009)
- A Mulher Invisível (2008)
- Chega de Saudade (2007)
- Fica Comigo Esta Noite (2006)
- Irma Vap - O Retorno (2006)
- O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (2006)
- Se Eu Fosse Você (2006)
- O Auto da Compadecida
Screenwriter
- Quer Tapioca com Manteiga, Freguesa? (1985)
- A Grande Família (2001)
- O Auto da Compadecida (1999)
Others
- A Máquina (Editora Objetiva, 1999)
- Mania de Explicação (2001)
- Luna Clara & Apolo Onze (2002)
- Histórias dos tempos de escola: Memória e aprendizado (2002);
- Pequeno dicionário de palavras ao vento (2003);
- Contos de estimação (Editora Objetiva, 2003);
- A comédia dos anjos (2004);
- PS Beijei (2004);
- A tampa do céu (2005),
- Contos de escola (2005);
- O Zodíaco – Doze signos, doze histórias (2005);
- Tarja preta (Editora Objetiva, 2005)
- Sonho de uma noite de verão (Coleção Devorando Shakespeare, Editora Objetiva, 2007)
- A arte de virar a página (2009) (Editora Fontanar. Com imagens de Leonardo Miranda)