Fernando Meirelles

Directed- City Of God (2002), The Constant Gardner (2005), Blind (2008)

Awards- Nominated for an Oscar for City Of God in 2004. Nominated for a BAFTA in 2003. Nominated at The Golden Globes for his film ‘The Constant Gardner’.

Meirelles makes use of close up shots such as above. In City Of God the story is non-linear. Freeze frames of characters as grownups in the gang are often used, followed by flashbacks of their journey to their position. This makes the movie more disturbing as we learn most character’s entire lives were spent in a gang.

Lil Ze when he was young, the camera dissolves from the above shot to the below shot

Handheld and often messy looking shots such as this help Meirelles to connote the mayhem of the wild children in City Of God (The boy is running while holding the camera)

Meirelles uses a high cutting ratio to connote the chaos in The City Of God.