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Adriana Falcão (born in 1960 in
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) is a Brazilian
screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...
.


Life

Born in
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but moved to
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at 11 years old. First her father committed
suicide Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome), and ...
and later her mother too, taking a fatal dose of sleeping pills. Graduated in
architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...
, but never worked in the profession.


Works

Her first
novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...
was ''The Machine'' (A máquina); as a screenwriter wrote for series such as ''Comedy privacy (''Comédias da vida privada''), ''A grande familia (''A large family'', also wrote the screenplays for the film. Currently publishes chronic in the paper '' O Estado de Sao Paulo''.


Television

* ''Só Dez por Cento é Mentira '' (2008) - Producer * ''Eu e Meu Guarda-Chuva '' (2010) * ''Se Eu Fosse Você 2'' (2009) * ''A Mulher Invisível'' (2008) * ''Chega de Saudade'' (2007) * ''Fica Comigo Esta Noite'' (2006) * ''Irma Vap - O Retorno'' (2006) * ''O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias'' (2006) * ''Se Eu Fosse Você'' (2006) * ''O Auto da Compadecida''


Screenwriter

* ''Quer Tapioca com Manteiga, Freguesa? '' (1985) * ''A Grande Família'' (2001) * ''O Auto da Compadecida'' (1999)


Others

* ''A Máquina'' (Editora Objetiva, 1999) * ''Mania de Explicação '' (2001)http://www.travessa.com.br/MANIA_DE_EXPLICACAO/artigo/ba0ab1bb-843c-4a73-ad17-0ea272769523 Livraria travessa * ''Luna Clara & Apolo Onze'' (2002) * ''Histórias dos tempos de escola: Memória e aprendizado'' (2002); * ''Pequeno dicionário de palavras ao vento'' (2003); * ''Contos de estimação'' (Editora Objetiva, 2003); * ''A comédia dos anjos'' (2004); * ''PS Beijei'' (2004); * ''A tampa do céu'' (2005), * ''Contos de escola'' (2005); * ''O Zodíaco – Doze signos, doze histórias'' (2005); * ''Tarja preta'' (Editora Objetiva, 2005) * ''Sonho de uma noite de verão'' (Coleção Devorando Shakespeare, Editora Objetiva, 2007) * ''A arte de virar a página'' (2009) (Editora Fontanar. Com imagens de Leonardo Miranda)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Falcao, Adriana Brazilian screenwriters 1960 births Living people Brazilian women screenwriters 20th-century Brazilian women writers 21st-century Brazilian women