Daniela Thomas is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and editor.

Biography

Thomas, whose birthname is Daniela Gontijo Alves Pinto, is the daughter of the famous cartoonist Ziraldo Alves Pinto

Ziraldo Alves Pinto

Ziraldo Alves Pinto is a Brazilian author, painter, comic creator, and journalist.He is normally known just as "Ziraldo." His books have sold about ten million copies, have been translated to many foreign languages and adapted to the theater and cinema.He and other progressive artists created the...

 and the sister of Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

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-nominated film score

Film score

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 composer Antonio Pinto

Antonio Pinto (composer)

Antonio Pinto is a Brazilian film score composer. He is the son of the famous cartoonist Ziraldo and the brother of film-maker Daniela Thomas. His work earned him a World Soundtrack Award and an ASCAP award, as well as a nomination in the Best Original Song category at the 65th Golden Globe Awards...

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In 1994 she co-directed her first feature film, Terra Estrangeira, alongside Walter Salles

Walter Salles

Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...

. In 2007, also with Salles, she directed Linha de Passe

Linha de Passe

Linha de Passe is a 2008 Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas. Written by Salles, Thomas and Bráulio Mantovani, the film stars Vinícius de Oliveira and Sandra Corveloni, who won the Best Actress Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for her role, which was her first in a...

, the film which gave Sandra Corveloni

Sandra Corveloni

Sandra Corveloni , is a Brazilian actress of film and stage.Born and raised in São Paulo, Corveloni graduated in performing arts in the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo , one of the largest and most prestigious private universities in Brazil.In 2008, she won the Best Actress Award in...

 a Best Actress Award

Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)

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 at the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

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As a director

• 1996 - Terra Estrangeira
• 1998 - O Primeiro Dia
• 1998 - Somos Todos Filhos da Terra
• 2002 - Armas e Paz
• 2002 - Castanha e caju contra o encouraçado Titanic (short film)
• 2006 - Paris, je t'aime
  Paris, je t'aime
  Paris, Je t'aime is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements...
  
  (segment "Loin du 16ème")
• 2007 - Linha de Passe
  Linha de Passe
  Linha de Passe is a 2008 Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas. Written by Salles, Thomas and Bráulio Mantovani, the film stars Vinícius de Oliveira and Sandra Corveloni, who won the Best Actress Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for her role, which was her first in a...
  
  

As a writer

• 1996 - Terra Estrangeira
• 1998 - Menino Maluquinho 2: A Aventura
• 1998 - O Primeiro Dia
• 2001 - Abril Despedaçado
• 2006 - Paris, je t'aime (segment "Loin du 16ème")
• 2007 - Linha de Passe

External links

• Daniela Thomas at the Internet Movie Database
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