Back in Brazil, he wrote the script for the short film Palace II, directed by Fernando Meirelles in 2001.
His first experience with cinema was with his father, who often directed 8 mm films during his job at the university.
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At 13, with a borrowed Super 8 camera, Meirelles started producing small films, inspired by Norman McLaren's animations.
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He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for The Constant Gardener, film which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress to Rachel Weisz.
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Rachel Weisz went on to win the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Magadi was a filming location for Fernando Meirelles's film The Constant Gardener, which is based on the book of the same name by John le Carré, although in the film, the shots are supposed to be at Lake Turkana, which are actually at Lake Magadi.
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Thin Man films shares its offices in London's Greek Street with Potboiler Production, a production company started by Simon Channing Williams and producer Gail Egan in 2000, which produced seven films before Channing Williams died, among them Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby and Fernando Meirelles' Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener.
In 2007, Fernando Meirelles started shooting Blindess, an adaptation from José Saramago's eponymous book, starring Julianne Moore, Gael García Bernal and Mark Ruffalo.
The lake is featured in Fernando Meirelles's film The Constant Gardener, which is based on the book of the same name by John le Carré, although in the film the shots are supposed to be at Lake Turkana.