Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
Birth : 1918-11-05, Cajobi, São Paulo, Brazil
Death : 2007-02-08
History
Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias (1918 – 2007) was a Brazilian screenwriter, editor, photographer, director of photography, actor, producer and filmmaker.
Candeias is believed to have been born in 1918, but was only registered in the town of Cajobi, in the state of São Paulo, in 1922. He worked in a number of jobs, from aeronautics sargent to truck driver. A self-taught filmmaker, he released his debut feature "A Margem" in 1967, a starting point for the Cinema Marginal movement (also dubbed Cinema de Invenção), which would forever change paradigms in the history of Brazilian cinema. Longing for distribution company for it, he turned to the Boca do Lixo, a block in downton São Paulo then known as a stronghold to independant filmmakers. A passionate advocate for the Boca, he paid homages to it in both short and feature films.
His work is composed of numerous shorts and feature-length films, mostly depiciting life of communities either in urban or rural Brazil dealing with life in poverty. Among the genres Candeias has worked with are horror, western, exploitation and drama, although his films are hard to categorize due to their experimental nature. Although a few of his features met commercial success, such as 1969s "Meu Nome É Tonho", Candeias' films had a notoriously small audience during his lifetime. "Caçada Sangrenta" (1974) and "A Freira e a Tortura" (1983), two of his features aimed at a more conventional public, emerged from a deal with producer/actor David Cardoso, who had previously starred in "A Herança" (1971), Candeias' take on Hamlet reimagined as taking place in rural Brazil. Candeias' picture "AOpção ou As Rosas da Estrada" (1981) won the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. His last feature, "O Vigilante" (1992), won the Special Jury Award at the 25th Brasília Film Festival, but was never distributed at the theatres.
Self
An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
Pyroclastic flows (also known as a pyroclastic cloud or pyroclastic wave) are the devastating result of some volcanic eruptions. They are fluid bodies, composed of hot gas and pyroclasts (gray and stone) that can travel at speeds of up to 160 km per hour. In this case, the eruption is Cinema Marginal and the pyroclastic flows are called Ozualdo R. Candeias.
Himself (archive footage)
Using a mixture of film clips and interviews with Ozualdo Candeias himself the film tells the director's 40 year trajectory.
Supervising Technical Director
Editor
A documentary short on Brazil's National Film Archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira, based in the city of São Paulo.
Director of Photography
A documentary short on Brazil's National Film Archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira, based in the city of São Paulo.
Director
A documentary short on Brazil's National Film Archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira, based in the city of São Paulo.
Director of Photography
An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.
Writer
An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.
Executive Producer
An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.
Producer
An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.
Director
An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.
Director
Director
Director
In a single shot, mysterious characters discuss about a cockroach problem.
Director
On the day of a bus strike, a bourgeois man takes a ride on a waste picker's wagon.
Director of Photography
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
Editor
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
Cinematography
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
Screenplay
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
Director
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
A discussion on Brazilian cinema, focusing on São Paulo's Boca do Lixo production pole.
Writer
Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. The revelation doesn't alter the natural course of events: he must torture her in order to obtain a confession, and gets increasingly attracted to her.
Director
Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. The revelation doesn't alter the natural course of events: he must torture her in order to obtain a confession, and gets increasingly attracted to her.
Director of Photography
In a card game, Manelão loses his horse. Suffering from a venereal disease he looks for a pharmacist who colluded with a colonel. The pharmacist heals him in exchange for an execution. Then, he quickly becomes a hitman.
Editor
In a card game, Manelão loses his horse. Suffering from a venereal disease he looks for a pharmacist who colluded with a colonel. The pharmacist heals him in exchange for an execution. Then, he quickly becomes a hitman.
Producer
In a card game, Manelão loses his horse. Suffering from a venereal disease he looks for a pharmacist who colluded with a colonel. The pharmacist heals him in exchange for an execution. Then, he quickly becomes a hitman.
Writer
In a card game, Manelão loses his horse. Suffering from a venereal disease he looks for a pharmacist who colluded with a colonel. The pharmacist heals him in exchange for an execution. Then, he quickly becomes a hitman.
Director
In a card game, Manelão loses his horse. Suffering from a venereal disease he looks for a pharmacist who colluded with a colonel. The pharmacist heals him in exchange for an execution. Then, he quickly becomes a hitman.
Producer
The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.
Editor
The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.
Director of Photography
The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.
Screenplay
The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.
Director
The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.
Screenplay
Director
A look into the Boca do Lixo, a square in downtown São Paulo known as a point for filmmakers, actors, and technicians who worked on low-budget films.
Director
Director
Short film by Brazilian filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias.
Writer
A sculptor, protected by a millionaire woman, becomes suspect of her murder. He flees to the country, where a violent pursuit takes place.
Director
A sculptor, protected by a millionaire woman, becomes suspect of her murder. He flees to the country, where a violent pursuit takes place.
Producer
Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.
Screenplay
Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.
Director of Photography
Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.
Director
Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.
Director of Photography
Two factory workers decide to spend all of their pay on a Saturday night with two prostitutes, but things don't go as planned.
Cinematography
Cinematography
A look at Brás, one of São Paulo's main Italian districts from its start until the 70s.
Writer
Director
Director of Photography
Director
Writer
A short film made from photos of Boca do Lixo, a bohemian and marginal neighborhood, and its people.
Director
A short film made from photos of Boca do Lixo, a bohemian and marginal neighborhood, and its people.
Production Design
An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle.
Cinematography
An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle.
Producer
An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle.
Writer
An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle.
Director
An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle.
A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among others.
Psychiatrist experiments LSD on 4 volunteers, to investigate Coffin Joe's influence over them. Each patient presents a different reaction, involving sex, perversion and sadism.
Writer
As a child he was kidnapped by gypsies that raised him, without he ever knowing his parents. As a young man Tonho leaves the gypsies and go live by himself, meeting in his way a beautiful woman, who lost her brother, and a dangerous gang of violent criminals.
Director
As a child he was kidnapped by gypsies that raised him, without he ever knowing his parents. As a young man Tonho leaves the gypsies and go live by himself, meeting in his way a beautiful woman, who lost her brother, and a dangerous gang of violent criminals.
Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
Director
An anthology horror film, divided in three segments, directed by three of the most important Brazilian directors of the 20th century.
Editor
At the riverside of rio Tietê, in São Paulo, prostitutes, a pimp, a mentally disabled man, a handicap, people in the margin of the society live their ordinary hopeless lives without any expectation and waiting to die and join themselves in the boat of hell.
Writer
At the riverside of rio Tietê, in São Paulo, prostitutes, a pimp, a mentally disabled man, a handicap, people in the margin of the society live their ordinary hopeless lives without any expectation and waiting to die and join themselves in the boat of hell.
Director
At the riverside of rio Tietê, in São Paulo, prostitutes, a pimp, a mentally disabled man, a handicap, people in the margin of the society live their ordinary hopeless lives without any expectation and waiting to die and join themselves in the boat of hell.
Assistant Director
Coffin Joe terrorizes a small peasant community in his search for the perfect woman to bear him a child.
Writer
Tired of the constant abuse he suffers in his household, a boy runs away from home and goes on a series of sad and dramatic adventures, in which he finds the opportunity to show the power of his own voice.
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