Bráulio Mantovani [SEP] place of birth
Bráulio Mantovani
Bráulio Mantovani (born July 1963 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian screenwriter and author.
Graduating in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, he began his career writing professionally for theatre groups in 1987. In the early 1990s, he moved to New York City where he worked as camera operator and assistant director for Zbigniew Rybczyński.
Back in Brazil, he wrote the script for the short film "Palace II", directed by Fernando Meirelles in 2001. On the next
City of God (2002 film)
City of God () is a 2002 Brazilian crime film co-directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003. The story was adapted by Bráulio Mantovani from the 1997 novel of the same name written by Paulo Lins, but the plot is loosely based on real events. It depicts the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro, between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the