Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-11-05 (89 years old)

Deathday

2007-02-08

Place of Birth

Cajobi, São Paulo, Brazil

Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

Biography

Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias (1918 – 2007) was a Brazilian screenwriter, editor, photographer, director of photography, actor, producer and filmmaker. Candeias is believed to have been born in 1918, but was only registered in the town of Cajobi, in the state of São Paulo, in 1922. He worked in a number of jobs, from aeronautics sergent to truck driver. A self-taught filmmaker, he released his debut feature "A Margem" in 1967, a starting point for the Cinema Marginal movement (also dubbed Cinema de Invenção), which would forever change paradigms in the history of Brazilian cinema. Longing for distribution company for it, he turned to the Boca d...

Production

1993

1993

Cinemateca Brasileira

as Director of Photography

1968

1970

The Inheritance

as Producer

1970

The Inheritance

as Production Design

1970

The Inheritance

as Director

1970

1981

The Option

as Director

2025

Tambaú

as Director

1972

O Desconhecido

as Director

1992

O Vigilante

as Director

1967

The Margin

as Director

1967

The Margin

as Writer

1969

My Name is Tonho

as Director

1969

1967

The Margin

as Editor

1974

1974

1974

Joe Zero

as Director

1972

1981

The Option

as Producer

1981

The Option

as Editor

1981

The Option

as Director of Photography

1992

1972

Com a Cama na Cabeça

as Director of Photography

1982

Desejos Sexuais de Elza

as Director of Photography

1987

The Beauties of Billings

as Director of Photography

1970

The Inheritance

as Director of Photography

1973

Maria... Sempre Maria

as Director of Photography

1973

Brás

as Director of Photography

1984

The Nun and the Torture

as Cinematography

1987

1976

O Candinho

as Director

1981

The Option

as Screenplay

1978

Devil Nymphs

as Cinematography

1976

Bocadolixocinema

as Director

1978

Desejo Violento

as Screenplay

1989

Mister Power

as Director

1985

Boca Macia

as Cinematography

1992

O Vigilante

as Writer

1992

O Vigilante

as Producer

1992

O Vigilante

as Executive Producer

1992

O Vigilante

as Director of Photography

1988

Rastros na Areia

as Director of Photography

1964

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

as Assistant Director

1974

Joe Zero

as Screenplay

1974

Joe Zero

as Producer

1974

Joe Zero

as Director of Photography

1982

Manelão, o Caçador de Orelhas

as Director of Photography

2003

As Tranças de Maria

as Supervising Technical Director

1973

A Noite do Desejo

as Director of Photography

1990

Lady Vaselina

as Director

1980

O Cangaceiro do Diabo

as Director of Photography

1968

1960

1960

2025

Tambaú

as Director of Photography

2025

Tambaú

as Editor

1976

Bocadolixocinema

as Director of Photography

1976

1971

Uma Rua Chamada Triumpho 1969/70

as Director of Photography

1971

Uma Rua Chamada Triumpho 1970/71

as Director of Photography

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