# Lula Carvalho

Lula Carvalho, ASC is a Brazilian cinematographer.
His body of work includes the acclaimed features Elite Squad (2007) and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010), RoboCop (2014) and the blockbuster Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).
As of 2022, Carvalho is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.

## Career

Carvalho grew up on film sets, working with his father, the acclaimed cinematographer Walter Carvalho. He learned how to load film magazines for the camera department at age of 10, started working as a second camera assistant upon finishing high school and became a professional first photographer assistant at age of 20.
Carvalho pulled focus on over nineteen acclaimed Brazilian features, including Fernando Meirelles' City of God, Walter Salles' Behind the Sun, and Héctor Babenco's Carandiru.
During this time, Carvalho also worked at second units as a cinematographer and as a camera operator on features. He also completed cinematography and still photography classes at New York University and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
In 2005, Carvalho shot his first feature as a cinematographer, Incuráveis, directed by Gustavo Accioli. He went on to shoot Elite Squad, directed by José Padilha which won the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival; A Festa da Menina Morta, directed by Matheus Natchergaele which was an official selection in Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival; December, directed by Selton Mello; Budapest, directed by Walter Carvalho along with three documentaries.
In 2008, Carvalho was awarded the Best Cinematography Prize by both the Brazilian Cinema Academy and the International Press Correspondents Association in Brazil (ACIE) for Elite Squad, which also led him to a nomination in the 2008 Camerimage Festival, in Poland. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, the follow-up to Elite Squad, and Carvalho was once again awarded the Best Cinematography Prize by both the Brazilian Cinema Academy and the International Press Correspondents Association in Brazil (ACIE), in 2011. In 2008 Carvalho shot the Argentinian Production Felicitas and was finalist for the Condor Award 2010 for that.
In 2012, Carvalho shot the science fiction RoboCop, his first American feature. In 2013, he shot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as its sequel in 2016. And in 2014, he shot the Netflix series Narcos, in Colombia.
In 2013, Carvalho won the ABC (Association of the Brazilian Cinematographers) Award for the movie A Wolf at the Door, and again won the ABC Award for Bingo: The King of the Mornings in 2015.
In 2017, Carvalho shot episodes of the Netflix's Narcos Mexico, The Mechanism and the Brazilian documentary Police Killing which won the first prize of It Is All True Film Festival, participated in the IDFA festival and was short listed for the Academy’s best documentary.
In 2019 shot the non fictional Amazon Series All Or Nothing following the Brazilian national soccer team throughout its participation at the South American Cup.
He is now based in Brooklyn, New York.

## Filmography
### Short film

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 2004 | Uma Estrela Pra Ioiô | Bruno Safadi | |
| 2004 | A Última Fábrica | Felipe Nepomuceno | |
| 2007 | Trópico das Cabras | Fernando Coimbra | |
| 2014 | Useless Landscape | José Padilha | Segment of Rio, I Love You |
| 2015 | Blume | Felipe Nepomuceno | |
| 2019 | Estrondo | Felipe Nepomuceno | |
| 2020 | Cidade Inerte | Vellas | |
| 2024 | Buyback | Jared Goodman | |

### Feature film

| Year | Title | Director |
| 2005 | Incuráveis | Gustavo Acioli |
| 2007 | Elite Squad | José Padilha |
| 2007 | Meu Nome é Dindi | Bruno Safadi |
| 2008 | A Festa da Menina Morta | Matheus Nachtergaele |
| 2008 | December | Selton Mello |
| 2009 | Budapest | Walter Carvalho |
| 2009 | Felicitas | María Teresa Costantini |
| 2010 | Elite Squad: The Enemy Within | José Padilha |
| 2011 | Juras Eternas 2 | Luiz Henrique Rios Rosane Svartman |
| 2011 | Estamos Juntos | Toni Venturi |
| 2011 | A Hora e a Vez de Augusto Matraga | Vinicius Coimbra |
| 2012 | Artificial Paradises | Marcos Prado |
| 2012 | À Beira do Caminho | Breno Silveira |
| 2013 | Éden | Bruno Safadi |
| 2013 | A Wolf at the Door | Fernando Coimbra |
| 2014 | RoboCop | José Padilha |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Jonathan Liebesman |
| 2016 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Dave Green |
| 2017 | Bingo: The King of the Mornings | Daniel Rezende |
| 2018 | Entebbe | José Padilha |
| 2018 | 10 Segundos para Vencer | José Alvarenga Jr. |
| TBA | Ary | André Weller |

### Documentary film

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 2006 | Moacir Arte Bruta | Walter Carvalho | |
| 2006 | Fabricando Tom Zé | Décio Matos Júnior | |
| 2009 | Domingos | Maria Ribeiro | With Manuel Águas |
| 2010 | Secrets of the Tribe | José Padilha | With Reynaldo Zangrandi |
| 2011 | Carta Para o Futuro | Renato Martins | Also producer |
| 2012 | Raul - O Início, o Fim e o Meio | Walter Carvalho Leonardo Gudel | |
| 2017 | Um Filme de Cinema | Walter Carvalho | With Bacco Andrade, Pablo Baião, Jacques Cheuiche and Pedro von Krüger |
| 2018 | Auto de Resistência | Himself Natasha Neri | |
| 2018 | Eduardo Galeano Vagamundo | Felipe Nepomuceno | With Breno Cunha, Guga Millet and Pedro von Krüger |
Documentary short
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 2001 | Atrocidades Maravilhosas | Himself Renato Martins Pedro Peregrino | |
| 2006 | Brasil | Felipe Nepomuceno | |
| 2013 | O Sonho de Ser Camisa 10 | Pedro von Krüger | With Jacques Cheuiche |
| 2014 | Caetana | Felipe Nepomuceno Pedro von Krüger | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 2006 | Estúdio 66 | | |
| 2011 | Força-Tarefa | José Alvarenga Jr. Rogério Gomes | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Falcón | Pete Travis | Episode "The Blind Man of Seville" |
| 2015 | Narcos | José Padilha Guillermo Navarro Andrés Baiz Fernando Coimbra | 8 episodes |
| 2018 | The Mechanism | José Padilha | Episode "Lava Jato" |
| 2020 | Narcos: Mexico | Andrés Baiz | Episode "Salva El Tigre" |
| 2020 | 26 Poemas Hoje | | |
| 2023 | The Gilded Age | Michael Engler Crystle Roberson | 4 episodes |
| 2025 | The Night Agent | Guy Ferland Ana Lily Amirpour Millicent Shelton | 6 episodes |