Alice de Andrade

writer, director, second unit director or assistant director

Alice de Andrade was born on Sep 19, 1964 in Brazil. Alice de Andrade's big-screen debut came with Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta directed by Lui Farias in 1986. Alice de Andrade is known for Irma Vep directed by Olivier Assayas, Maggie Cheung stars as Maggie Cheung and Jean-Pierre Léaud as René Vidal. Alice de Andrade has got 6 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Alice de Andrade achieved is Cine Ceará - Ibero-american Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Alice de Andrade plays is O Diabo a Quatro which will be released on Aug 12, 2005.

Alice de Andrade was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 19th 1964, daughter of Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (Macunaíma, O Padre e a Moça, etc) and Sarah de Castro Barbosa. With easy access to Brazilian cinema milieu, she worked as assistant director in films by Murilo Salles, John Boorman, Ruy Guerra, Walter Lima Jr, André Téchiné, Olivier Assayas and her own father.She won a grant to study in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San António de los Baños in Cuba. Before her feature-film début as director in 2004, she made 10 short and medium-length films in Brazil (including the 1994 award-winning "Dente por Dente"), Cuba ("Luna de Miel", award-winner at the 1993 Havana Film Festival), Burkina Faso ("Le Pari Burkinabé") and France, where she has also lived for a while.Her feature début as director was "O Diabo a Quatro", a Brazilian-French-Portuguese-Swiss co-production, filmed in 2002 and released in 2004, winner of a Special Jury Award at the Brasília Film Festival.