- Born
- Birth nameFrancisco Antunes Almeida
- Nicknames
- Frandu
- Chico
- Chicão
- Chiquinho
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- One of the youngest and newest Brazilian talents in independent filmmaking. Having worked with talents of the Latin-American and Brazilian film industry as producer Jorge Sánchez, directors Silvio Tendler and Walter Lima Jr..
Since the year 2004 he co-founded the production company with director Rodrigo Rueda Terrazas and producers Estevam Allevato and Roberto Peralta entitled Groovy Filmes [br] which started off in Rio de Janeiro but has now several crews in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, São Paulo and its main location Rio de Janeiro. His first short film entitled Guatemala (2004) immediately caught the attention of several critics and film fans and was accepted into several festivals. Since then he has directed, produced and written several short films, half-length films. His latest short-film which he directed and co-wrote with Rodrigo Rueda Terrazas Noite no Mixam (2005) has been selected for several film festivals and was produced under the guidance of filmmaker Silvio Tendler as his graduation thesis. Since the year 2005 and at the moment he is co-producing and working with Rodrigo Rueda Terrazas once again as cinematographer for the first long-feature film of the company entitled "Poliamore" (working title) soon to be released in 2006.
In the year 2005 he graduated from Publicity from PUC-Rio only to then enter his master studies in filmmaking in the prestigious Argentinean school "Escuela Profesional de Cine de Eliseo Subiela" in Buenos Aires where he lives at the moment and has been for the past year.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Rodrigo Rueda Terrazas
- Tends to work wich Composer Vinicius Calvitti
- Tends to work with cinematographers João Atala and Julio Costantini
- Usually works with long-time friend and film collaborator Rodrigo Rueda Terrazas
- The theme of death and money are recurrent in his scripts and films
- Tends to cast Sandro Melo and 'Diego Acosta'
- Besides Portuguese, is fluent in English and Spanish.
- Some of his favorite films include: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); Once Upon a Time in America (1984); _Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)_; Mulholland Drive (2001); Eraserhead (1977); The Phantom of Liberty (1974); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); Blue Velvet (1986); Fellini's 8½ (1963); Santa Sangre (1989)
- Has been declared to be great fan and admirer of directors David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel, and the surreal and expressionist art movements and works of the film world as one of his prime interests.
- Usually works with director and long-time friend Rodrigo Rueda Terrazas and Composer Vinicius Calvitti.
- Brother of Adriana Almeida who worked as still photographer and actress in the short-film Noite no Mixam (2005) directed by her brother Frandu Almeida. Although Adriana Almeida has been related to Frandu's work on several occasions, her real profession is being a dentist.
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