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.
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.
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.