César Charlone (1958-) was born in Uruguay but he has lived in Brazil for more than thirty years. He is a graduated from the Sao Paulo Film School. He began to work in film in 1975 as photographer of documentaries, commercial shorts and feature films with directors as Murillo Salles, Sergio Resende, Roberto Gervitz and Renato Tapajos.
In 1997, he began his career as director of publicity shorts, music video and the episodes of the TV series Cidade do Homens, of which he also wrote the screenplay. He has a vast expirience in the publicity field, having directed more than 700 commercials for the most important advertising brands of the world.
In 2001, he worked as director of photography in the film City of God by the Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, a film for which he got a nomination to the Academy Awards and made of him the first Uruguayan who achieved such a distinction. In 2003, he worked under Tony Scott´s direction in the film Man on fire, and also with New Yorker filmmaker Spike Lee in the film Suker Free City and again with Meirelles in The Constant Gardener, a work that made him the award-winner of a nomination for Best Cineatography at the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom.
El baño del papa was his first feature film as director, codirected with the Uruguayan filmmaker Enrique Fernández. The film had an impressive performance at international film festivals such as Toulouse (Cine en Construcción award), Huelva, (Best Screenplay), Gramado (Best actor, actress and screenplay), Sebastián ( Horizontes Latinos award) and best film at Bogotá and Viña del Mar film festivals.