Filmmaker and employee at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). He started his career shortly after graduating in Physical Education from the UFPB in 1982. While in college he associated himself with a thriving group that was interested in cinema, joining the University’s then recently-created Film Documentation Center (NUDOC). At first he was interested in using audio visual aids for teaching purposes, but soon he realized the power they had in recording the surrounding reality, and their ability to promote citizenship. From 1983 on, while undertaking an extension period sponsored by the Center, he made the films Quando um Bairro Não se Cala, Sertãomar, Seu Rei Mandou Dizer, Som do Bairro, À Margem da Luz and Senhor do Castelo, the latter being about writer Ariano Suassuna. The documentary was made over the course of ten years, based on interviews made with the writer from 1992 to 2007, in which year the film opened the Recife Film Festival. He complemented his education with two different stints at a Direct Cinema course in Paris’ Association Varan, one in 1995 and another in 1996. He is the vice-coordinator of Cultural Extensions at the Federal University of Paraíba. Lives and works in João Pessoa.