EXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker, documentarian, and philanthropist Walter Salles.
A USC alum, Salles has been a filmmaker for 35 years, his 1995 characteristic International Land chosen by over 40 movie festivals and being native hit in his homeland.
His 1998 drama Central Station a couple of former faculty trainer, who writes letters for illiterate individuals, and a younger boy, whose mom not too long ago died died, trying to find the daddy he by no means knew; was nominated for 2 Oscars — Finest International Language Movie and Fernanda Montenegro for Finest Actress– and received the International Language Movie Golden Globe, blasted him off to a profession in Hollywood. The film additionally received a BAFTA, and the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition’s Golden Bear.
His 2004 characteristic The Motorbike Diaries from Focus Options, about an early street journey made by Che Guevara and Alberto Granado by means of South America that outlined their revolutionary beginnings, grabbed a Golden Globe nom, and received the Ecumenical Prize and the Francois Chalais Award on the Cannes Movie Competition, an Oscar within the Finest Track class (for “Al Otro Lado Del Rio” from Jorge Drexler), and a BAFTA for Finest International Language Movie.
Salles lastly introduced the long-gestating Francis Ford Coppola manufacturing of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel On the Street to the large display screen in 2012 starring Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley. The pic made its world premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition.
Salles’ 2001 title Behind the Solar a couple of younger man who questions the custom of violence between two rival households, was nominated for a Golden Globe within the Finest International Language movie class.
The filmmaker continues to be represented by Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman L.L.P.
