João Moreira Salles

Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Editor

January 1, 1962 (64 years)
João Moreira Salles (Rio de Janeiro, born 1962) is a Brazilian documentarian and president of the Instituto Moreira Salles. In 2006, he founded the magazine Piauí. He has also taught courses on documentary at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Princeton University.

Known For

  • Master, a Building in Copacabana
    Master, a Building in Copacabana2002
  • Behind the Sun
    Behind the Sun2001
  • Playing
    Playing2007
  • News from a Personal War
    News from a Personal War1999
  • In the Intense Now
    In the Intense Now2017
  • A Night in 67
    A Night in 672010
  • Intermissions
    Intermissions2004
  • Last Conversations
    Last Conversations2015
  • Songs
    Songs2011
  • Narcissus Off Duty
    Narcissus Off Duty2020
  • Nelson Freire
    Nelson Freire2003
  • The End and the Beginning
    The End and the Beginning2006
  • Metalworkers
    Metalworkers2004
  • Moscow
    Moscow2009
  • Mariner of the Mountains
    Mariner of the Mountains2021
  • Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
    Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy1989
  • I Owe You a Letter About Brazil
    I Owe You a Letter About Brazil2019
  • Creatures of the Mind
    Creatures of the Mind2025
  • New World
    New World2021
  • Amyr Klink - Mar Sem Fim
    Amyr Klink - Mar Sem Fim2002

Filmography

2025
2021
Mundo Novo · as Associate Producer
2021
2020
2019
2015
Last Conversations · as Executive Producer
2011
As Canções · as Executive Producer
2010
Uma Noite em 67 · as Executive Producer
2009
Moscou · as Executive Producer
2007
Playing · as Executive Producer
2006
O Fim e o Princípio · as Executive Producer
2004
Peões · as Executive Producer
2002
2002

2021
2008
Crítico · as Self
2004
Entreatos · as Himself
1991
Movie Days · as Self - Interviewee

2017
In the Intense Now · as Narrador

2003
Viva Sapato! · as Key Hair Stylist
2001
Behind the Sun · as Additional Dialogue