Mário Patrocínio

Mário Patrocínio was born in 1978 in Lisbon where he lived until he was 8 years old when his parents moved to Japan. He studied for two years at a local Japanese School in the city of Kumamoto, an experience that introduced the oriental perspective of the world to his life trajectory. Curiously, Mário and his brother, the only Western children at school, arrived in Japan the same year that the Super Mario video game was released and this made him a local celebrity. At age of 17 he was accepted to a renowned university in Lisbon, but when he was a year away from majoring in economics, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking, enrolling in a course at the NY Film Academy. Mário began studying Script Analysis under Michael Margotta, of the Actor's Center of Rome, and Directing the Actor in Film with Jack Waltzer, one of the founders of the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute. A few years later, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he also studied Theater with Selonk and Paulo de Mora