Lauro Escorel

Lauro Escorel
Lauro Escorel
Born
Lauro Escorel Filho

January 5, 1950 (1950-01-05) (age 74)
Washington, DC, United States
OccupationCinematographer
Years active1971–present
RelativesEduardo Escorel (brother)[1]

Lauro Escorel Filho (born January 5, 1950), most known as Lauro Escorel, is an American-born Brazilian cinematographer and film director. He was born during his father, a Ministry of External Relations, stay in Washington, DC.[1] He first worked as an assistant to Dib Lutfi and Affonso Beato, and made his debut in 1971 on Leon Hirszman's São Bernardo,[2] which won Gramado Film Festival Best Cinematography Award.[3] He directed the short film Libertários, winner of Margarida de Prata Award from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, in 1976.[4] In 1978, he would win again the Gramado Film Festival Best Cinematography Award for his work on Héctor Babenco's Lúcio Flávio, o Passageiro da Agonia.[3] His first feature film, Sonho sem Fim, won the Jury Special Award at the 1986 Gramado Film Festival.[3] Ironweed (1987), another Babenco's film, would make him more known internationally.[2]

  1. ^ a b Ramos, Fernão; Miranda, Luiz Felipe (2000). Enciclopédia do cinema brasileiro. Senac. p. 217. ISBN 9788573590937.
  2. ^ a b "Lauro Escorel". Filme B (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c "Festival de Gramado – Premiados" (in Portuguese). Gramado Film Festival. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
  4. ^ "Libertários deu rosto e sentido aos anarquistas de São Paulo" (in Portuguese). São Paulo International Film Festival. Retrieved April 30, 2014.