Breno Silveira

Breno Silveira (5 February 1964 – 14 May 2022) was a Brazilian filmmaker noted for having directed Two Sons of Francisco, the highest-grossing film of 2005 in Brazil. Born in Brasília, he studied in Paris at the École Louis Lumière. Before directing, Silveira worked as a camera assistant on Suzana Amaral's 1985 film The Hour of the Star and as director of photography on Carla Camurati's Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil (1995) and Andrucha Waddington's Me, You, Them (2000).

He also directed music videos for Marisa Monte, Os Paralamas do Sucesso, and O Rappa. His debut feature, the biopic Two Sons of Francisco, drew more than five million viewers and became a box office hit. He later directed Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008), Gonzaga — de Pai pra Filho (2012), and À Beira do Caminho (2012), and in 2021 he directed the video-on-demand series Dom for Amazon Prime Video. Silveira died on 14 May 2022 in Vicência, Pernambuco, after suffering a heart attack on the film set while working on the film Vitória.