Marcos Magalhães (; born in 1958 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a screenwriter and animator whose short films include '' Meow!'', which received the Special Jury Prize at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, and '' Animando'', which was shot in the

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Career

Magalhães was responsible for the first professional course in animation in Brazil, held in collaboration with the

from 1985 to 1987. In 1986, he coordinated ''Planet Earth'', a collective film by 30 Brazilian animators for UN's Year of Peace. He's the conceiver and producer of ''Eight Point Star'', a film entirely animated by the late Fernando Diniz, a renowned naïf painter who lived in a psychiatric institution in Brazil. As an artist-in-residence at the Division of Animation and Digital Arts of the

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, he completed in 1999 the film ''TwO'', a 3D computer animation combined with animated scratches on 35 mm film. In 2000, he produced for

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the first Latin-American episode for the series ''Short Films by Short People''. In 2002, he became a

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fellow with the project Dar Alma, that organized animation workshops for non-professionals. He has been an animation teacher in the Design graduation course since 2002, and also coordinator of the Animation post-graduation course since 2004, at the

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (; PUC-Rio) is a Jesuit, Catholic, pontifical university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the joint responsibility of the Catholic Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro and the So ...

(PUC-Rio). He is also one of the founders and directors of

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, International Animation Festival of Brazil, the biggest annual event on animation in Latin America since 1993.

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* Brazilian animated film directors 1958 births Living people Artists from Rio de Janeiro (city) Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro people {{Brazil-arts-stub