Caio Ribeiro, Writer and Director
Caio Ribeiro
Writer & Director
About Me
Caio Ribeiro is a native of Brazil. After completing film school in New York, he pursued a career as a director of photography. Throughout the 1990s, he shot multiple heavy metal and hip-hop videos for the likes of Brutal Truth, Main Source, Lords Of The Underground, and others, achieving broad recognition with the breakthrough video "Shook Ones" by Mob Deep.
In the mid 1990s, Caio started to write and direct narrative films. His first short film, Ballad for Two Lovers, won the an award for Best Director at the Brussels Film Festival in Belgium in 1999.
Caio's first feature film, Sometime in August, was named an official selection at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, the Florida Independent Film Festival, and nominated for Best American Independent Film of 1999.
From 1999 to 2004, Caio wrote and served as director of photography for two World War II films, Last Letters from Monte Rosa and The Fallen. Both films were winners of multiple awards and distributed internationally. Always a fan of The Twilight Zone, Ribeiro filmed The Realm from 2007 to 2012, a sci-fi tetralogy about characters who, due to extreme trauma, enter a dimension where past and present become one, where reality and fantasy collide, and where people suffer from the wounds they inflict on others.
In 2021, Caio completed the seven year long shoot of Branded By Fire, about his traumatic childhood juxtaposed with the stories of enslaved political prisoners of the Argentinian dictatorship (1976-83).
Caio is currently developing Borges Virtualis, a VR installation that immerses the player into a film adaptation of Borges’ The Intruder, and the historical reality surrounding the shoot.
Sometime in August
A lonely woman hires a private investigator to find out who she really is.
"A rarity in American film"
- The New York Times
Selected in
Last Letters from Monte Rosa
Life through the eyes of doomed soldiers late in WWII.
Selected in
Ballad for Two Lovers
A man contemplates about love, life, and death while photographing his latest lover, who he's sure is about to give him the boot.
Selected in
Branded by Fire
Ribeiro rescues the remains of a 1978 film adaptation of Borges’ The Intruder, butchered by the sensors during Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1978-83). Ribeiro discovers that the director’s demise was the result of her transposing the literary classic, about an 1860s peasant woman enslaved and murdered by two gaucho brothers, with the real stories of her contemporary political prisoners enslaved during the Argentinian dictatorship.
The Realm
Chapter 1: The Carrier of Time
A controversial thinker wants to take the world by storm with his theory of "might is right", only to watch his personal world burn to ashes, having to rebuild his life alongside the powerless and rejected.
Chapter 2: Guilty as Charged
A hit man lies dying in a emergency room, while reconstructing the events of his demise through the memories of his nemesis, who lies mortally wounded by his side.
Chapter 3: Wake Up in New York
After been released from a mental institution a young woman tries to put her life back together. Little she knows she is bound to relive the events that drove her mad.
Chapter 4: Where and When
Juliette's husband discovers he has a terminal illness. Given the chance, will she sacrifice an innocent man to save her true love?
Borges Virtualis
Borges Virtualis is a VR installation, that immerses the player into the role of a detective in search of the missing actor/director of a 1978 film adaptation of Borges’ The Intruder*. The player journeys from clue to clue of the director disappearance, within the context of Argentina’s “Dirty War”, when 30.000 people went missing in the hands of the reigning dictatorship. The journey ends when the player finds oneself in a contemporary jail cell, under the plight of a victim of police brutality.
(*) The story of a 1800s peasant woman, who is enslaved by two brothers who fight over her possession, only to end up being murdered by them.
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