A director, scriptwriter and film producer, João Moreira Salles is recognized as one of the leading documentarists and filmmakers from the generation that flourished at the turn of the 1990s, during the revival of authorial documentary filmmaking in Brazil. Notícias de uma Guerra Particular (1999 – directed and written in partnership with Kátia Lund), Nelson Freire (2003), Entreatos (2004 – nominated for the Cinema Brasil Grand Prize for Best Director) and Santiago (2007) are some of his main documentaries. In 1987, alongside his brother the filmmaker Walter Salles, he founded VideoFilmes, a production company originally focusing on documentaries and TV shows. Early works of his aired on TV channel Rede Manchete, including China, o império do centro (1987) and América (1989). He wrote the script for Krajcberg, o poeta dos vestígios (1987), by Walter Salles; produced Lavoura Arcaica (2001), by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Madame Satã (2002), by Karim Aïnouz, and Babilônia 2000 (2001) and Edifício Master (2002), by Eduardo Coutinho. João Moreira Salles recently produced and collaborated for the final edit of Coutinho’s last documentary film (he died in 2014): Últimas Conversas (2015). He also works as a journalist; in 2006 he created the magazine Piauí, for which he writes editorials, news reports and essays. As a professor, he has taught at the Journalism course of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-RIO. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.