Chico Teixeira (14 June 1958 – 28 December 2019) was a Brazilian documentarist, screenwriter and film director.

Life and career

Born in

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, Teixeira graduated in economy, and in the second half of the 1980s started working on television, directing the

Rede Manchete Rede Manchete (; lit.: Headline Network; also known as TV Manchete or only Manchete) was a Brazilian television network that was founded in Rio de Janeiro on 5 June 1983 by the Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and businessman Adolpho Bloch. The ne ...

show ''Conexão Nacional''. Starting from 1989, he directed several documentary films, winning the award for best director at the 1995

Festival de Gramado The Gramado Film Festival ( pt, Festival de Gramado) is an international film festival held annually in the Brazilian city of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, since 1973. In 1992, the festival began to award Latin American films produced outside of B ...

for ''Criaturas que nasciam em segredo''. He made his feature film in 2007 with the film '' Alice's House'', which premiered at the

65th Berlin International Film Festival The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 February 2015, with American film director Darren Aronofsky as the President of the Jury. German film director Wim Wenders was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The ...

and was awarded the Grand Prix at the

Cabourg Film Festival The Cabourg Film Festival (french: Festival du Film de Cabourg – Journées romantiques or simply ) is an annual film festival held every June in Cabourg, France. Founded in 1983 by writer-journalist Gonzague Saint Bris, the festival is dedica ...

. His following film '' Absence'' won four awards at the Festival de Gramado including best film. Prates Correia died of lung cancer on 28 December 2019, at the age of 61.

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Chico Teixeira
at Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural {{DEFAULTSORT:Teixeira, Chico 1958 births 2019 deaths Brazilian television directors Brazilian film directors Brazilian documentary film directors Brazilian screenwriters Mass media people from Rio de Janeiro (city)