Edu Menezes Director & Motion Designer
About — Director & Motion Designer

Twenty-five years of motion, editing and direction.

Twenty-five years of motion design, editing and direction: from the finishing rooms at O2 Filmes alongside Fernando Meirelles, through MTV and the Portuguese Language Museum, to Cannes Lions and directing for Adidas. Film, advertising, broadcast and live installation.

Career

1995 — present
2026
Creative Director
adidas · Mexico City · Remote

Concept, direction and edit on an authored film for the Club América kit launch.

2023 — 2025
Motion Design · VFX · Title Graphics
Why Stories Matter? (Canal Azul / Gullane) · São Paulo

“Milton Nascimento — Bituca,” a feature documentary on one of the giants of Brazilian music. Released in cinemas across Brazil and broadcast on TV Globo and Globoplay in November 2025.

2018 — 2026
Motion Design & Editing
Africa · São Paulo · Remote

A long collaboration with one of Brazil's most awarded agencies: Budweiser “Made of Music,” Vivo “The Autism Journey,” Itaú “Rebranding” and “Letters From Simone.”

Vivo “The Autism Journey” — 3 Bronze Lions, Cannes

2022 — 2025
Motion Design
GUT · São Paulo & Miami

Festival craft and post-production, including Compass UOL “The Stolen Art Gallery.”

2023
Motion Design & Post
BBH New York · New York · Remote

Alliance for LGBTQ Youth “The Courage to be Truly Free,” a Cannes Lions festival film built remotely for the New York team.

2022
Motion Design & Editing
FCB Chicago · Chicago · Remote

Cannes Lions festival films: Glad “Le Partie” and Discover Bank “Privacy Protector.”

2021 — 2022
Motion Graphics
Wieden+Kennedy · R/GA · Ogilvy

Motion design across São Paulo and New York.

2019
Motion Design & Editing
Grey Brasil

Zumbi dos Palmares “The Real Machado de Assis” and XP “Coast of Sexism.”

“The Real Machado de Assis” — Bronze Lion, Cannes

2017 — 2019
Motion Design & Editing
AlmapBBDO · DM9DDB · São Paulo

Corinthians “Invictus” and Havaianas, for two of Brazil's most storied agencies.

2005 — 2007
Direction · Motion · Art Direction
MTV Brasil · Museu da Língua Portuguesa · Boreal Estúdio · São Paulo

Directed and produced spots for MTV's marketing. Art direction and design for the Portuguese Language Museum's “Praça da Língua” — poetry projected as living typography. Partner and creative director at Boreal Estúdio: feature-film title sequences and VFX supervision on “O Mundo em Duas Voltas” (2007). Taught the history of motion design and After Effects at IED.

1999 — 2004
Motion Design & Finishing Coordination
O2 Filmes · São Paulo

Nearly five years alongside Fernando Meirelles. Title designer on “Olga” (2004); VFX coordination on two seasons of Globo's “Cidade dos Homens”; finishing for Itaú, Coca-Cola, Volkswagen and Petrobras.

1995 — 1999
Editing & Motion — Intern to Editor
DPZ · McCann Erickson (Seattle) · early São Paulo post houses

First cuts and first frames: Itaú, Nestlé, Sadia and Hollywood.

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