Rio+(the+movie)

Summary/Review
Rio is a film that follows the adventure of Blue, the last male McCaw of his type, to Rio where he will meet a wild band of characters. The story begins with Blue being captured from his native home Rio and taken to be sold as a pet in the states. However, the truck that is transporting Blue loses him in Minnesota where Linda, a quirky little girl finds him and raises him. Years later, a man named Tulio arrives at Linda’s bookstore to inform her that Blue is the last male of his kind and they want to mate him with Jewel, the last female of his kind in Rio. The three travel to Rio to mate Blue and Jewel; however their plans are interrupted when Blue and Jewel are kidnaped! Linda and Tulio feverishly look for the two lost birds, while Blue and Jewel have their own adventure of trying to escape, along the way meeting many interesting characters both good and evil. The story happily ends when Jewel and Blue do escape and arrive safely back to Tulio and Linda, who open a wildlife facility for Blue McCaws.



Author Bio
Carlos Saldanha was born in 1968 in Brazil where he lived for the entirety of his childhood. In 1991, he left Brazil to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York. While there he completed his master’s degree in computer art. His creation of two digital shorts caught the attention of Chris Wedge, a cofounder of Blue Sky Studios, and Carlos was invited to join their team beginning his work on projects such as Ice Age and Rio.

Other Works
By Carlos Saldanha Director: [|Rio], [|Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs]  ,  [|Ice Age: The Meltdown]  ,  [|Robots]  ,  [|Gone Nutty]  ,  [|Ice Age] Producer: [|Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2], [|Surviving Sid] , [|No Time for Nuts] Actor: [|Rio], [|Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs] , [|Ice Age: The Meltdown] Visual Effects: [|Fight Club], [|A Simple Wish] Writer: [|Rio] Animation Department: [|Bunny] Other: [|The Making of Hot Wings], [|The Acting Animators] , [|Saving the Species: One Voice at a Time]  ,  [|Explore the World of Rio] , [|The Real Rio] , [|Boom-Boom Tish-Tish: The Sounds of Rio] , [|Made in Hollywood] , [|Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition] , [|O Aprendiz] , [|Saturday Disney] , [|HypaSpace] , [|Assembling 'Robots': The Magic, the Music, & the Comedy] , [|HBO First Look]

Awards
While this film currently has no awards, it has been nominated for the 2012 People’s Choice Awards.

Historical Contexts
Brought by the people who produced Ice Age, Rio has joined this rapidly growing form of film making.