Winner of innumerous Lions at the Film Festival in Cannes and many Clios, Amon is one of the most award-winning publicity Director in the world, (at some point ranked 6th most awarded director in the Gunn Report) and for years in a row considered the best director of Brazil by the "Ojo de Latina America".
Partner/founder of Zero Filmes, Amon went through several artistic experiences before becoming a director in advertising. Apart from Still Photography - his job for a while - incursions on Music, Theatre, and Graphic Arts, helped him build up his eclectic vision and creative personality.
Amon turned professional in his film making activity, directing collaborating in some shorts . He is co-founder of the iconic “ Casa de Cinema “ , a colabotative partnership of filmmakers in south of Brazil that pretty much captured the scene of important alternative filmaking in Brazil, with various shorts and long features films . He was then 20 years old and an important piece of the independent movie scene in Brazil.
He went to publicity as a freelance Director of Photography, and soon after made his career as a Director, when with Neco Schertel and Cristina Pillar he founded Zero Filmes with the idea of transferring this one director production company to São Paulo, and hit the main ad market in south America. Since then, based in São Paulo, Amon directs campaigns for all renowned creative professionals in Brazil and for the most important clients and agencies. He has also signed all the campaigns that got the highest public recall from the past years in Brazil, according to a recent research.
Fluent in English, Amon has done campaigns in and for other countries: Germany, Spain, France, Portugal, Austria and the U.S. - where he is a member of the Director´s Guild of America, the selective "club" of professional filmmakers.
Since long, Amon is a reference for the market, an experienced and detail freak director, working with passion and crafting his films in a production house tailor made for his style.