Biography
Cassio Amarante is a Brazilian production designer and art director. Trained as an architect, he began working in 1993 as an assistant to Daniela Thomas on theatre sets for the Companhia de Ópera Seca. His first film credit was as assistant art director and set designer on Foreign Land (1995).
Amarante shared production design duties with Carla Caffé on Central Station (1998). He has worked on numerous Brazilian films, including Behind the Sun (2001), The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006), Xingu (2011) and Bingo: The King of the Mornings (2017). In 2008 he received the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro award for best art direction for The Year My Parents Went on Vacation. He has also served as production designer on television series.
