Macario De Souza

Who is Macario De Souza?

Macario De Souza is a Brazilian-born Australian filmmaker.

Macario is the youngest of the three children of Macario Snr and Maria De Souza, who immigrated from Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the mid-1970s and settled in Sydney, Australia. Macario’s parents provided a traditional Brazilian influence in Macario’s and his two sisters, Glenda and Ingrid’s lives growing up. After attending Matraville public primary school, Macario went on to complete his HSC at South Sydney High School, graduating as school captain. During his time at south Sydney high school Macario explored music and film projects. “ I was always in and out of punk rock bands in school but it wasn’t until the bra boys film that I got the chance to professionally record my music” Macario displayed an interest in film from around the age of 14 when he borrowed his sisters Hi-8 camera. After that Macario regularly went out and filmed his good friends Mark Mathews and Richie Vaculik surfing at Maroubra beach.