Daniel Pereira Florêncio is a Brazilian-born British film director, writer and producer.

Career beginnings

Daniel Florêncio studied Radio and TV at the

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. After graduating in 2005, he moved to

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to pursue a Master in Arts and Media at the

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. After his Masters, he joined the BAFTA-winning

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series

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as an editor., and remained in the

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, where he still resides. For

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, the now extinct TV channel from former American vice-president

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, he produced and directed the short-documentary Gagged in Brazil in 2008. The film portrays the economic pressure and censorship exerted over the press by Brazilian presidential hopeful, and then governor of the state of

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, Aécio Neves. Through legal intimidation, the politician's team tried unsuccessfully to stop the film being broadcast,.

Film career

''Awfully Deep'' (2010)

In 2010, he wrote, directed and produced the short film ''Awfully Deep'', the first acting job of

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, who went on to star as Robin Arryn in the

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, and later as Dex on

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. The film won an Honourable Mention at the ''Athens International Film Festival'' in

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, and the Audience Award at the ''ShortShorts Film Festival'' in

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. The film had a particular interest in

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, being screened at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, at Utopiales in

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and at the L'etrange Film Festival in

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. Later, it was broadcast on Canal+ on their show Mikrociné. It was also a finalist of the

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Film 4 Climate Competition.

''Chasing Robert Barker'' (2015)

In 2013, Florêncio and his now wife, Maria Nefeli Zygopoulou, launched a

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crowdfunding campaign to shoot their first feature-film, titled ''Chasing Robert Barker''. The script told the story of a

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and was inspired by the documentary ''Tracking William: a Night with a Paparazzo'', that Florêncio produced for Current TV. The campaign raised £50,000 and the film was produced through his production company ''I Made it Films'', in partnership with Iceland's Pegasus Pictures (the Icelandic producer of

), and was launched in 2015. The following year the film received three nominations at the ''National Film Awards UK'', winning Best Action Film. In 2016 the film was nominated for the Accession Award for Screenwriting at the

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In production

Florêncio and Zygopoulou are currently developing a slate of projects and co-productions, including their next feature-film entitled ''In Arcadia''.

Filmography

References

External links

I Made it Film's official website.
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