Marão graduated from the UFRJ School of Fine Arts and is an animation director, having made fourteen short films and participated in more than three hundred animations for advertising, internet, TV and cinema.
He was founding President of ABCA (Brazilian Association of Animation Cinema), professor on the postgraduate course in animation at PUC for seven years and since 2003 he has been one of the coordinators of International Animation Day and managing partner of the production company Marão Drawings Excited. His short films have been selected for 658 film festivals in more than forty countries and received 124 awards. Marão was honored at the 20th Anima Mundi and also received retrospectives at the Baixada Animada, Iguacine, Animanima (Serbia), ReAnimania (Armênia), Anima BR (Angola) and ANIMAGE (PE) festivals.
KNOWN FOR
Primeiro Movimento
2006
Até a China
2015
Between Frames: The Art of Brazilian Animation
2013
Bizarre Fish from the Abyssal Zone
2024
EngoleLogoUmaJacaEntão
2011
O Último Engolervilha II
2016
EngoleDuasErvilhas
2006
Engole ou Cospervilha?
2013
Engolervilha
2003
Unicorn
2017
O Arroz Nunca Acaba
2005
Seu Dente e Meu Bico
2006
FILMOGRAPHY
All
Movies
TV
Acting
5
Directing
15
Writing
11
Producing
3
Editing
1
Art
1
Visual Effects
14