I cannot remember exactly when I decided to be a filmmaker.
I have always liked to watch movies.
I must admit that I spent a good fraction of my childhood in front of the TV, zapping from channel to channel, searching for some movie to watch.
It could be anything, an adventure of a Greek hero at ancient times or an astronaut discovering alien life on a distant galaxy.
Early in my life, movies become a hobby and objects of fascination.
When I was a teenager, my uncle open a new busness in my small hometown: a video rental shop.
I would spent my afternoons there, helping him, recomending movies for the clients, cleaning the shelvings.
My uncle could not pay for someone to work there, so I proposed him a deal: I would help him all afternoons in exchange to rent for free as much video tapes (DVD was something rare and expensive at the time) as I would be able to watch.
It was the time of the passion.
I worked to my uncle for two years or so (he paid me a small salary after a while), but it was worthy because during this time I have watched problably hundreds of movies, from everywhere in the world, about anything.
My taste for movies was unrestricted, I would watch anything, from war action movie to chick flicks.
I grew up and had to make decisions about my future, especially in what concerns about education.
I received a scholarship to study film at the only college which offers this major at my state.
I had to move from countryside to the capital.
I spent 4 years studying film.
It was the time the passion become love.
On the contrary of what one would imagine, discover about the manufactiring of movie, learn that all that magic was actually a number of illusionism very well rehearsed, do not made me lost my interest in film; in contrary, made me want it even more, becauseI learned that I was able to make my own movies as well.
A man have to be born a wizard, but he can make himself a illusionist.