Lauro Escorel Filho

Lauro Escorel was born on 5 January 1950 in Washington, where his father was posted for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The brother of the filmmaker Eduardo Escorel, he was at first an assistant to the cinematographers Dib Lutfi and Affonso Beato. He lit his first feature film in the early seventies, under the direction of Leon Hirszman, to whom he attributes a decisive role in his training. Director of photography on more than fifty films, in Brazil as in the United States, he has directed only at intervals.

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• CinemaSonho sem fimLauro Escorel Filho · 1986Cinema