Sérgio Péo

Biography

Sérgio Péo was born in Pará in 1947 and at the age of 12 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he lives. He is an architect / urban planner, filmmaker, poet, visual artist. He studied architecture and urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and soon started to use cinema to question housing conditions and urban behavior in the city. His films Pira (1972), Na Maré Com Ho Chi Minh (1974), Rocinha Brasil 77, (awarded at the Jornada de Salvador and honorable mention at the Obenhauser Festival, Germany); Associação dos Moradores dos Guararapes (best short film at the Gramado Festival in 1979), and Urban Contradictions (1981) address these issues.

Directed

1. A, B, C, Brasil (1980) — Director
2. Marajó: A Origem das Águas (2010) — Director
3. Esplendor do Martírio (1974) — Director
4. Monumento a Uruçumirim (2009) — Director
5. O Muro (1986) — Director
6. Olho no Olho (2000) — Director
7. Rocinha 76/96 (1996) — Director
8. O Ouro de Serra Pelada (2005) — Director
9. Pira (1972) — Director
10. Mutirão de Limpeza do Rio Carioca (2012) — Director
11. Rio Uruçumirim (2009) — Director
12. Pênalti - A Transgressão (2006) — Director
13. Contradições Urbanas (1981) — Director
14. Closed Cinemas (1980) — Director
15. Ñanderú - Panorâmica Tupinambá (1991) — Director
16. Cinemação Curtametralha (1978) — Director
17. Associação de Moradores do Guararape (1979) — Director
18. Rocinha Brasil 77 (1977) — Director

Also appeared in

1. A, B, C, Brasil (1980) — Narrator