Frederico Machado

Biography

Frederico Machado (São Luis, 1972), film critic, screenwriter, producer and director. In 2006 he founded Lume Filmes production company then become distribution service; he’s also the director of Lume International Film Festival. After directing various short movies, in 2013 he writes and directs his first feature film ‘The Exercise of Chaos’, one of the most remarkable first-time film ever as well as first part of his Dante Trinity Trilogy continued a year after with ‘The Road of Milk’, a work equally astonishing but more experimental that maintains the stylistic fingerprint of the author. The last part of the trilogy has been announced but is still in working: ‘The Orbits of Water’. - Cine Paxy - Italy

Directed

1. The Exercise of Chaos (2013) — Director
2. The Road of Milk (2016) — Director
3. Dead Leaves (2017) — Director
4. The Orbits of Water (Solid Version) (2021) — Director
5. Tears Ox (2018) — Director
6. Punga (2022) — Director
7. Memory Road — Director
8. Anguish (2016) — Director
9. Candle to a Crucified (2009) — Director
10. Hells (2006) — Director
11. Litany for an old woman (1997) — Director
12. A Political Movie (2019) — Director
13. The Orbits of Water (Liquid Version) (2020) — Director
14. The Sound of God (2025) — Director
15. Path of Shadows — Director
16. The Eighth Cage — Director
17. The Surgeon of Lazarus (2025) — Director
18. Punga (2022) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Eighth Cage — Himself