Walther Moreira Salles Junior
Walter Moreira Salles Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.
- Brazilian filmmaker Walther Moreira Salles Junior (also known as Walter Salles) is a member of one of Brazil’s oldest banking families.
- His late father, Walther Moreira Salles, was the founder of Unibanco and a former ambassador to the United States.
- In 2008 Unibanco merged with Itau, then Brazil’s second-largest commercial bank, creating Itau-Unibanco, the largest bank in Latin America.
- Moreira Salles and his three brothers, all billionaires, also own stakes in CBMM, the world’s leading supplier of the mineral niobium.
- Moreira Salles directed more than 20 films, including ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ and 1998 Academy Award nominee ‘Central Station.’
