Carlos Saldanha

Carlos Saldanha

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Carlos Saldanha (born January 24, 1965 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and the co-director of Ice Age and Robots. He works at Blue Sky Studios, the company that makes the movies he has directed. He received an MFA in computer art from the School of Visual Arts in 1993.

Filmography

Director

• Ice Age (2002) (co-director)
• Robots (2005) (co-director)

• Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
• Rio (2011)
• Rio 2 (2014)
• Ferdinand (2017)
• Foster (2021) (co-director)

Producer

• Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) (Executive)

• Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) (Executive)
• The Legend of Shelby (2022) (Executive)

Trivia

• The Portuguese 'nha' syllable in "Saldanha" is pronounced like the "ñ" letter in Spanish, the closest pronunciation approximation for that letter/syllable in English is the 'nyo' in "canyon".