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Ugo Giorgetti

Brazilian film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ10387172 ↗
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Ugo César Giorgetti (born 1942 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian filmmaker.

Early years

He works as scriptwriter and director of advertising films since 1966, initially at the Alcântara Machado, C & N, Denison and Proeme agencies, later for the companies Cia. de Cinema, Frame and Espiral.

In the early 1970s he made two short films about aspects of the city of São Paulo. His first feature, Quebrando a Cara, started in 1977 but released only in 1986, is a 16 mm documentary about the career and fights of boxer Éder Jofre.

Feature films

Giorgetti's first feature film, "Jogo Duro," tells the story of a group of marginalized people who dispute the occupation of a house in an upscale neighborhood of São Paulo. His next film "Festa" received the award for Best Film at the 1989 Gramado Festival. In 2004, the Aplauso Cinema Brasil Collection, from the Official Press of the State of São Paulo, published the volume "Ugo Giorgetti - o sonho intacto", by Rosane Pavam.

Football writer

Since 2006, Giorgetti has signed a weekly column on football in the Sunday edition of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ugo Giorgetti” as brazilian film director. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1966, 1977, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-05-28. The account is most persuasive where Giorgetti, Brazilian and film can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as brazilian film director. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10387172. VIAF identifies the subject as 4786150325583510090007. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1966, 1977 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ugo Giorgetti” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.