- Born
in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, Georges Gachot is a
French and Swiss dual national. He started his career
working in film production for commercials and as a
sound assistant, most notably in the Oscar winning
film "Journey of hope" by Xavier Koller in
1990.
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- Subsequently
he was commissioned by the music label Naxos and by
various European TV channels to direct films that
portray musicians, composers and interpreters. In 1996
he began producing and directing his own films - in
coproduction with international partners like
Idéale Audience (France), Arte (France &
Germany) - that enjoyed worldwide success, distributed
by
- Doc
& Films (France). Gachot received the prestigious
"Prix Italia" in 2002 for his portrait of the
Argentinean pianist Martha
Argerich, Evening
Talks
and created the first of a trilogy of films about
Brazilian music in 2005, "Maria Bethânia "Musica
É Perfume". This portrait of Maria
Bethânia was distributed worldwide (in France by
Les Films du Paradoxe and in Brazil by Imovision). He
became a true enthusiast and specialist of Brazilian
music and went on to film two more feature
length
- documentaries
there, Rio
Sonata
(2010) and O
Samba
(2014). Between 1996 and 2012 he also directed
five
feature length
documentaries
about Cambodia.
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- Gachot's
current project Where are you, João
Gilberto? is based on the book by the German
journalist Marc Fischer, which tells the story of his
quest to find the famous Brazilian musician and
founding father of Bossa Nova, João Gilberto.
It is a co-production with Idéale Audience
(France) & Neos Films (Germany).
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- Have
a look at his filmography.
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- PDF
of the Biography to download
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- Special:
Décès
du chef opérateur Matthias
Kälin
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- ******
- ADEUS
DONA CANÔ
(1907
- 2012)
- Dona
Canô Veloso, mother of Maria Bethânia and
Caetano Veloso, passes away on december 25th at the
age of 105.
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