Walter Carvalho
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Biography: Walter Carvalho is a critically and internationally acclaimed Brazilian cinematographer. Carvalho has worked on over 70 films in his career since entering the Cinema of Brazil in 1973. He has won some 30 different professional film awards to date and has worked on acclaimed Brazilian films such as Carandiru in 2003. He is the father of also cinematographer Lula Carvalho.
Department: Camera
Place of Birth: João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
Birthday: January 01, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho
Overview: The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho's cinematographic career, from the very beginning, as a co-writer of “Aruanda” (1960), directed by Linduarte Noronha, to the present day. With Vladimir himself as the main narrator and illustrated by scenes from his films, the documentary also features interviews with Gilberto Gil, Orlando Senna, Arnaldo Carillo, Dácia Ibiapina, Fernando Duarte, Sérgio Moriconi, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-31
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Procura-se Meteorango Kid: Vivo ou Morto
Overview: Meteorango Kid – O Herói Integalático, by André Luiz Oliveira, is a cult movie made in Bahia, awarded at the 1969 Brasília Festival and censored by the dictatorship. Meteorango Kid: alive or dead is a documentary about the film and its effects on the lives of other artists. André Luiz and musician Tuzé de Abreu, in the company of friends from the generation who used to go crazy, guide us in this search and reveal the mysteries of the invention of this iconic character of countercultural youth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-12-08
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Iluminados
Overview: Documentary about the great Brazilian photographers who helped develop Brazilian cinema and their opinions on their work, making movies in Brazil and in general, and other subjects. As a bonus, they all agreed to shoot the same scene following their individual concepts, and the result is shown for comparison.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-30
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Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Overview: 23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Overview: Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important Brazilian documentary filmmakers in activity, his images influenced the emergence of Cinema Novo and the new Brazilian documentary years later. Quando a Coisa Vira Outra covers the most important films made by Vladimir, revealing where ideas come from to show the true reality of a country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Cinematography
Overview: Through conversations held with fifty four of the most distinguished cinematographers working in Brazil and abroad over the last forty years, the documentary explores the working environment, the new tools and the different styles of the professional who controls the light and the shades behind the camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-05-28
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Vladimir Carvalho, Conterrâneo Velho de Guerra
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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O Outro Lado da Memória
Overview: In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Principal photography went on for nine years, but the production was shut down after a series of unfortunate events. This documentary retells that story, repurposing the fictional footage and chronicling the work both in front and behind the scenes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-09-19
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Cacaso
Overview: Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was one of the leaders of the marginal poetry movement. Cacaso filled notebooks not only with poems but reflections, drawings and collages. He also became a lyricist and partner of celebrated songwriters such as Tom Jobim, Edu Lobo, Toninho Horta, João Donato and Sivuca.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-04-10
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Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo
Overview: A hug movie, for the biggest storyteller in Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-08-07
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Overview: In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Caruatá – Vejo o Lugar que me vê
Overview: A visual account of when an image finds the photograph.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-05
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Conquista Central Station - The 7 days of creation
Overview: Exclusive record of the filming of Central do Brasil in Vitória da Conquista in 1997. The ProVídeo Uesb team had access to the backstage, testimonies from the team, actors and director Walter Sales, keeping unique moments from one of the most emblematic films of what came to be known as Cinema da Retomada. A project carefully thought out by cultural producer Jorge Melquisedeque, the video ended up not being produced by him - who would die in 2001. All the raw tapes were rescued in 2002 and edited with the script by Marcelo Lopes (based on Jorge's chronicles about the period) and directed by Esmon Primo for the tribute program to the 10 years of the Indiscreet Window Cine Vídeo Uesb Program.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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VINTE - RioFilme, 20 anos de cinema brasileiro
Overview: The documentary VINTE - RioFilme, 20 anos de cinema brasileiro is a celebration of these two decades of Brazilian cinema, revealing the role of RioFilme in its recent history. Created in late 1992, shortly after the impeachment of Fernando Collor and shortly before the Audiovisual Law, RioFilme is the daughter of our democratic consolidation and the mother of the recovery, which contributed to and often inaugurated different phases of Brazilian cinema, until the current strengthening of its economy and the multiplication of the diversity of its films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-05-13
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