Naná Vasconcelos
Also Known As: Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Sound
Place of Birth: Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: August 02, 1944
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 09, 2016
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Mozdzer (Solidarity of Arts. Gdansk. 2010)
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-08-18
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The Castaways of Turtle Island
Overview: Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-06
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Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Overview: Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of these great names in Bahia's music.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-09-01
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Born To Be Blind
Overview: Three blind sisters, Regina, Maria and Conceição, earn their living by singing in front of churches, in Brazil... They tell their amazing stories, full of drama, heartache, rape, poverty, death and hope.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-11-29
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Aboio
Overview: Brazilian outback, cowboys preserve their age-old customs, communicating with their cattle in a form of plaintive singing known as Aboio. The chant resounds an improvised, ancient form that is an entrance to the life and the imaginary of the ancient Brazilian cattle drivers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-01
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Abry
Overview: At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the risk to her life, Lúcia, laconic, tells the doctor: 'Then open it'. This is the second time she has undergone bypass surgery. From this gesture, the documentary Abry was born (with y, sign of the unconscious, according to the nomenclature invented by his son, Glauber Rocha). To relate her memories, she invites filmmaker Joel Pizzini, who offers his mini camera as an instrument to amplify Lúcia's imagination. Abry is a poetic dive into Lúcia Rocha's fabulous universe, reconstructing her trajectory in Brazilian cinema through sounds, images and characters with whom she lived closely.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-20
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House 9
Overview: In the 1970s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, composer Jards Macalé and filmmaker Luiz Carlos Lacerda (Bigode) shared a house in Rio de Janeiro - which became a center of convergence for musicians, filmmakers and writers, and where they performed classic films and songs of Brazilian culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Brazil's Maria Bethânia
Overview: This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work, the records and the career of this great lady of Brazilian music are well known, the starting point, the training, the first years remained till now in a vaguely legendary and imprecise blur. Thanks to many investigations that concern as many places as times, thanks to journeys back in time through the towns and regions, the film seeks the origins of Maria Bethânia’s voice and style. Helped and led by Bethânia herself, with the assistance of Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque, the two princes of Brazilian music, along with the complicity of the great Gilberto Gil, the author is allowed to go to the first context : the North-East. In the family home in Santo Amaro, the film finally touches the childhood of Maria Bethânia – and her brother Caetano, and this mysterious point – from which the music radiates.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Badi
Overview: The personal trajectory and the international career of the singer, guitarist, and composer Badi Assad.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-11-06
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Atabaque Nzinga
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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It Is Not My Music
Overview: Moki and Don Cherry met in the mid-1960s and soon began collaborating closely. They made happenings, music, art, posters, and record sleeves; they performed together, organized workshops, and toured. The film merges the different worlds they lived in – countryside and city life, and the various disciplines that were interwoven in their artistic practices.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Daquele Instante em Diante
Overview: This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção. He was one of the pillars of a moment of Brazilian popular music that was conventionally called "Vanguarda Paulista". Starting from extensive research which resulted in more than 250h of images and a dive into the personal universe of this incredible artist, Itamar comes up with a poetic, intuitive plot where facts and testimonies speak louder than preconceived ideas.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-07-05
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