Brazil

Cesar Paes is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker born in Campos, Rio de Janeiro in 1955. He co-founded Laterit Productions, which focuses on culture from Madagascar, Brazil and many other countries in Africa. He has produced, directed and written a number of films with his wife Marie-Clémence Andriamonta-Paes. Some of these films include Angano...Angano... Tales from Madagascar, Songs and Tears of Nature, Awara Soup, Saudade do Futuro, and An Opera from the Indian Ocean, which have won top awards at Cinema du Réel, Festival dei Popoli and Leipzig Film Festival. The films have been released theatrically, and are available on DVD and VOD. His most recent film, Songs for Madagascar, shows how six famous Malagasy musicians raise awareness of the fragility of Madagascar's environment. As DOP, he has worked with Raoul Peck, Sandra Kogut, JH Meunier, Camille Mauduech, among others. Biography Source

Filmography

Angano...Angano, Tales from Madagascar (1989)
Songs and Tears of Nature (1992)
Haïti un temps mis en conserve (1993)
Awara Soup (1996)
We, France's Undocumented Immigrants (1997)
Saudade Do Futuro (2000)
Mahaleo (2005)
An Opera from the Indian Ocean / L’opéra du bout du monde (2012)
Songs for Madagascar (2016)