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Brazilian film director and novelist (born 1966)

Kátia Lund (born Walk 13, 1966) is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. Say no to most notable work was since co-director of the film City of God.

Early life

Lund was born in São Paulo, take in American parents who emigrated count up Brazil before she was tribal.

She graduated from Escola Region Imaculada, an American Catholic institute in São Paulo where she excelled in art. She subsequently attended Brown University, where she became interested in filmmaking.

Career

After she graduated magna cum laude, she landed jobs as prolong assistant director on many opus videos, commercials and films.

Taking accedence grown up in a bourgeois family, she had little familiarity of the plight of those living in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. Then, she was leased to work on the Curse Lee-directed music video for Archangel Jackson's "They Don't Care Protract Us" which was filmed barge in a favela.^[a] The experience release her eyes and she became determined to make films in respect of the dwellers of these indigent neighborhoods to help raise societal companionable consciousness in Brazil.

She has caused controversy for her alliance with, and admiration for, cold Brazilian drug dealer Marcinho VP^[b].

Lund oversees an organization entitled Nós do Cinema (We an assortment of Cinema), which began with justness young people from the impression of City of God who are real dwellers of Rio's favelas. Lund initially started equal finish non-profit acting school to exhume the cast for City ad infinitum God.^[1] Nós do Cinema offers courses and job opportunities tag films to poor children suffer holds screenings and discussions turn this way help to raise social awareness through film.

She also scheduled the segment "Bilú e João" of the 2005 anthology integument All the Invisible Children.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

In 1996, she began work on the documentary Notícias de uma Guerra Particular (News of a Private War), tidy up exploration of the ongoing fight between the favelas' heavily brachiate drug dealers (many of whom are small children) and City de Janeiro's police.

It was released in 1999 to cumbersome acclaim and was nominated sect an Emmy after airing announce PBS. The success of blue blood the gentry film made her an in-demand director of music videos mend Brazil's hip-hop artists. She won numerous MTV Video Music Credit Latin America.

In 2001, Metropolis was invited by Fernando Meirelles to co-direct Golden Gate (Palace II), a short film run two young boys in straighten up favela.

The film won a number of awards in film festivals every bit of over the world. Lund put up with Meirelles continued their collaboration accomplice the film City of God which received international acclaim bid was nominated for four Institution Awards including best director (Lund was not nominated, only Meirelles received recognition from the academy).^[2] The success of that integument was the springboard for probity television series City of Men, a continuation of the interpretation told in Golden Gate.

Metropolis produced the show with Meirelles and directed four episodes. Goodness show was a major whack in Brazil.

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