{"id":12834,"date":"2019-06-16T14:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T11:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?p=12834"},"modified":"2019-06-17T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:47:10","slug":"15-6-morning-discussion-with-fernando-meirelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/15-6-morning-discussion-with-fernando-meirelles\/","title":{"rendered":"15th of June: Morning discussion with Fernando Meirelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the Saturday morning discussion, Brazilian director <strong>Fernando Meirelles<\/strong> told about his versatile career, which has included various works from video art to successful international films and from experimental TV series to opera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meirelles remembers his first film experiences are related to his father&#8217;s movie clips which were shot on 16mm film. However, the career as a director was not Meirelles\u2019s original plan. He grew up in S\u00e3o Paulo and after discontinuing his biology studies Meirelles studied architecture. He decided to become a filmmaker after seeing <strong>Jorge Bodanzky<\/strong> and <strong>Orlando Senna<\/strong>\u2019s <em>Iracema<\/em> (1975). It was a film that combined fiction and documentary such an exceptional way and was so impressive for Meirelles that he decided to make a short film as his final project and, as a result, made his introduction to the film industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of his career, Meirelles and his colleagues made experimental short films and video art. He also directed several years fun and experimental series and worked in advertising. However, the ads were not enough for Meirelles \u2013 instead, he dreamed of directing a feature film. He practiced directing a feature film with his first film <em>Maids<\/em> (2001).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI always want to get involved in projects that make me feel insecure. The topics I don&#8217;t know much about and I usually even regret, that I agreed to take on such an impossible idea. For some reason, these work the best in the end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meirelles wanted to film <strong>Jos\u00e9 Saramago<\/strong>&#8216;s novel <em>Blindness<\/em>, but because of the copyrights, the plan was almost canceled. One of the luckiest coincidences on Meirelles\u2019s career was when the publisher of Saramago asked if Meirelles would be interested in directing <strong>Paulo Lins<\/strong>&#8216;s novel <em>The City of God<\/em>. After a short moment of hesitation, Meirelles grasped this opportunity and chose a completely different topic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meirelles\u2019s The City of God was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and was a great success. The film was followed by another success, <em>The Constant Gardener<\/em> (2005), after which Meirelles announced that he would stop making movies. However, he went back on his decision, as he finally got the opportunity to direct a film adaption of Blindness (2008). The film was followed by <em>360<\/em> (2011) and then Meirelles returned to TV series. Even after that the director has still broken new ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trying something new has always inspired Meirelles. He has directed, for example, the opera <em>Les P\u00eacheurs de Perles<\/em> in 2015 and the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Currently, the director has many projects in progress, including a climate crisis series for the BBC, a science documentary and the feature film <em>The Pope<\/em> produced by Netflix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meirelles would bring the film Iracema with him to a deserted island. That movie which originally encouraged him to become a director.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the Saturday morning discussion, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles told about his versatile career, which has included various works from video art to successful international films and from experimental TV series to opera. Meirelles remembers his first film experiences are related to his father&#8217;s movie clips which were shot on 16mm film. 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