Biography

Eduardo Escorel de Morais (born 1945), most known as Eduardo Escorel, is a Brazilian film editor and director. He debuted as an editor on the Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's The Priest and the Girl (1965). With his first feature film, Lição de Amor, he won the Best Director Award at the 1976 Gramado Film Festival. He was also awarded Best Director for his second film, Ato de Violência, this time at the 1980 Brasília Film Festival. He won Best Editing Award for Guerra Conjugal and O Chamado de Deus at the 1974 and 2000 Brasília Film Festival respectively, and for Dois Perdidos numa Noite Suja at the 2002 Gramado Film Festival.