Alain Fresnot (born June 6, 1951) is a French-born Brazilian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, orga ...

and producer. Born in Paris, his family came to Brazil in 1957 to live in

Campinas Campinas (, ''Plains'' or ''Meadows'') is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's population is 1,213,792, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian ...

due to the

Algerian War The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...

. His family moved to

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

where he attended on cinema courses before his first contact with professional cinema. In 1967, he made the

continuity editing Continuity editing is the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related shots, or different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence to direct the viewer's attention to a pre-existing consistency of story across b ...

for

Walter Hugo Khouri Walter Hugo Khouri (São Paulo, 21 October 1929 – São Paulo, 27 June 2003) was a Brazilian film director, screenwriter, and producer of Lebanese and Italian descent. Khouri made 25 feature films and won several national and international ...

's '' As Amorosas''. He directed three short films between 1973 and 1975, making his debut as a director in 1976 with '' Trem Fantasma''.

Filmography

* '' Trem Fantasma'' (1976; director) * '' Noite em Chamas'' (1977; editor) * '' Sede de Amar'' (1979; editor) * ''

O Homem que Virou Suco ''O Homem que Virou Suco'' (English: ''The Man That Was Turned Into Juice'') is a 1980 Brazilian drama film written and directed by João Batista de Andrade. Cast * José Dumont as Deraldo / Severino * Célia Maracajá as Maria * Denoy de Olive ...

'' (1980; editor) * '' Janete'' (1983; editor) * '' A Marvada Carne'' (1985; editor) * ''

Jubiabá ''Jubiabá'' () is a Brazilian modernist novel written by Jorge Amado in 1935. It earned Amado an international reputation, being hailed by Albert Camus as “a magnificent and haunting” book. Begun in 1934 in Conceição da Feira in Bahia, whe ...

'' (1986; editor) * '' Lua Cheia'' (1989; director) * '' Ed Mort'' (1997; director) * ''

Kenoma Valentinius, a mid-2nd century Gnostic thinker and preacher, was among the early Christians who attempted to align Christianity with middle Platonism. Valentinius pooled dual concepts from the Platonic world of ideal forms, or fullness (pleroma), ...

'' (1998; producer) * ''

Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum ''Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum'' (, lit. ''"Ra-Tim-Bum Castle"'') was a Brazilian children's program produced and broadcast by TV Cultura and the Network Service of Television. Targeted toward children and youth, it follows an educational entertainment mod ...

'' (1999; producer) * ''

Desmundo ''Desmundo'' is a 2002 Brazilian drama film by Alain Fresnot, based on the novel of the same name by Ana Miranda. The film is set in 1570, a period when orphan Portuguese girls were sent to marry the settlers' sons. This was done to prevent the P ...

'' (2002; director) * ''

Família Vende Tudo ''Família Vende Tudo'' is a 2011 Brazilian film directed by Alain Fresnot. Plot A family with financial difficulties is a brilliant idea: to make the daughter Lindinha (Marisol Ribeiro) impregnate the famous singer Ivan Cláudio (Caco Ciocler ...

'' (2011; director) * '' Moto Anjos'' (2015; producer)

References

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