Jorge Furtado

Jorge Alberto Furtado born June 9 1959 is a Brazilian film and television director and screenwriter Furtado attended university for courses in medicine psychology journalism and arts but did not graduate He began his professional career in the 1980s on a local channel TVERS working as a reporter presenter editor screenwriter and producer In 1982 created a TV show Quizumba which mixed fiction and documentary with very audacious language for the Brazilian public television Between 1984 and 1986 Furtado was director of the museum Museu de Comunicação Social Hipólito José da Costa in Porto Alegre At the same time with the help of José Pedro Goulart and Ana Luiza Azevedo he created the company Luz Produções where he made two short films and produced plays for theater From 1986 to 1990 he made dozens of TV commercials In 1987 he was one of the founders of Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre in which he still participates In 1990 he worked on TV Globo making scripts for many TV series In 2008 Harvard University promoted an exhibition of his films called Jorge Furtados Porto Alegre Description above from the Wikipedia article Jorge Furtado licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia