Directing

Tiago Melo

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Directing

Credits

7 titles

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Behind the camera

Yellow Cake poster
NR

When radical science backfires, miners and researchers confront apocalypse in Tiago Melo’s pulpy, politically charged sci-fi fusing local myth, dark humour, working-class grit and radioactivity in Brazil’s Northeast.

Yellow Cake

2026

Yellow Cake poster
NR

When radical science backfires, miners and researchers confront apocalypse in Tiago Melo’s pulpy, politically charged sci-fi fusing local myth, dark humour, working-class grit and radioactivity in Brazil’s Northeast.

Yellow Cake

2026

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Terecô da Mata do Codó

2015

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Terecô da Mata do Codó

2015

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about uranium mining in the Sertão do Seridó region (Paraíba/Rio Grande do Norte) during World War II by the Americans.

Urânio Picuí

2013

Azougue Nazareth poster
6.6

No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir do Coco leads a nonprofessional cast of authentic Maracatu practitioners in a tale told through dance, music, and the supernatural, set in the sugarcane fields outside Recife.

Azougue Nazareth

2019

Azougue Nazareth poster
6.6

No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir do Coco leads a nonprofessional cast of authentic Maracatu practitioners in a tale told through dance, music, and the supernatural, set in the sugarcane fields outside Recife.

Azougue Nazareth

2019