Walter Salles/Daniela Thomas
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BiographyWalter Salles was born in 1956 in Rio de Janeiro. Several of his films are about social injustice in Latin America and the possible way to live and deal with it. Salles’s first notable film was Foreign Land (1995), filmed together with Daniela Thomas, which was selected by over 40 film festivals worldwide. In 1998 he released Central Station to widespread international acclaim, and Behind the Sun (2001) was also well received. His biggest international success has been The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) about the life of young Ernesto Che Guevara, which quickly became a box-office hit in Latin America and Europe. In 2005, Salles released his first English-language feature film, Dark Water. He was voted one of the 40 Best Directors in the World by The Guardian in 2003. Daniela Thomas has been working in film, theater and opera for the last 25 years in different capacities: director, art director, set and costume designer, scriptwriter and playwright. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, she has worked around the globe. As filmmaker, she has written and co-directed Foreign Land, Midnight and one of the episodes of Paris Je T’aime with Walter Salles. She has also written and collaborated on a number of film-scripts. Her work in theater features directing Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres and designing sets and costumes for over a hundred theater and opera productions in Brazil, Europe and in the United States. Films
Major awardsThe Motorcycle Diaries
Behind the Sun
Central Station
Foreign Land
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Brazil
