Bio

Marcelo Fortaleza Flores

 

Director, photographer, writer and producer. After obtaining grants in music, anthropology and documentary cinema in England, Brazil and in the United States and studying film and visual anthropology at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Flores spent more than five years among indigenous peoples in the Amazon where he filmed their fight for autonomy while writing successful proposals for the demarcation of the sacred Indian lands in the rainforest.

As photographer, he has exhibited in Brazil, Africa (Senegal, Mali), and France, and he has published photographs, articles and reviews in publications such as National Geographic, Revista Cult (Brazil), and in several international newspapers (Washington Post, US; O Estado de São Paulo, Brazil). His documentariy films: River of Gold and Humorous Dramas were selected in festivals in Europe and the United States and were broadcast in Brazil (GNT). He was Associate Producer of Forbidden Wedding (Flavia Fontes, 2005, Sundance Channel). Flores has been a guest speaker in programs like Manhattan Connection (GNT, US/Brazil), at TV-Cultura (Brazil), and at Radio France, France Culture, and for the celebration of the centenary of Claude Lévi-Strauss in the Museum of the Quay Branly (France). Claude Lévi-Strauss, Return to the Amazon (71 min. English subtitles) premiered at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival in October 2009 in its portuguese version Trópico da Saudade: Claude Lévi-Strauss e a Amazônia (broadcast on TV Cultura and TV Brasil). Trópico da Saudade: Claude Lévi-Strauss, auprès de l’Amazonie is a feature length version (71 min.) of the original French TV version (52 min.) broadcast on France 5 and TV-5 Monde.