Marcos Magalhães (Portuguese pronunciation: [maɡaˈʎɐ̃js]; born in 1958 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a screenwriter and animator whose short films include Meow!, which received the Special Jury Prize at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival,[1] and Animando, which was shot in[clarification needed] the National Film Board of Canada.
[citation needed] Magalhães was responsible for the first professional course in animation in Brazil, held in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada from 1985 to 1987.
In 1986, he coordinated Planet Earth, a collective film by 30 Brazilian animators for UN's Year of Peace.
[citation needed] He's the conceiver and producer of Eight Point Star, a film entirely animated by the late Fernando Diniz, a renowned naïf painter who lived in a psychiatric institution in Brazil.
In 2002, he became a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellow with the project Dar Alma, that organized animation workshops for non-professionals.