Walter Carvalho

Walter Carvalho

Nacimiento : 1947-01-01, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

Historia

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.

Perfil

Walter Carvalho
Walter Carvalho

Películas

Procura-se Meteorango Kid: Vivo ou Morto
Self
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.
Paul Singer, Uma Utopia Militante
Cinematography
Professor Singer can be assessed as an enlightenment: he was also an educator, even (or above all) when he made politics. A major character in the intellectual life of São Paulo in the last seventy years, he narrates his trajectory, from his arrival in Brazil in 1940, escaping the Second World War, in 2016, in the leadership of solidarity economy movements. The film tries to show the beauty of a man thinking.
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
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.
Barretão
Director of Photography
Agunia
Director of Photography
Zuzu Zero, the Angry Eagle from the Agunia team. The story of this emblematic persona is mixed with one of the most traditional parades from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro: The Agunia do Sapê.
The Asphalt Kiss
Director of Photography
When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a tabloid reporter.
O Outro Lado da Memória
Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo
Camera Operator
Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo
Self
Caruatá – Vejo o Lugar que me vê
himself
A visual account of when an image finds the photograph.
Caruatá – Vejo o Lugar que me vê
Director
A visual account of when an image finds the photograph.
Iran
Screenplay
An account on the immersion process of Brazilian method actor Irandhir Santos, while building up his character for "Redemoinho" (Whirlpool, 2017), captured on set by director of photography Walter Carvalho.
Iran
Director of Photography
An account on the immersion process of Brazilian method actor Irandhir Santos, while building up his character for "Redemoinho" (Whirlpool, 2017), captured on set by director of photography Walter Carvalho.
Iran
Director
An account on the immersion process of Brazilian method actor Irandhir Santos, while building up his character for "Redemoinho" (Whirlpool, 2017), captured on set by director of photography Walter Carvalho.
The Movie of My Life
Camera Operator
Sur de Brasil, en 1963. Tony (Johnny Massaro), hijo de un francés y una brasileña, es un joven enamorado del cine y la poesía que, tras graduarse en la universidad, vuelve a su pequeña ciudad natal en el Brasil rural para descubrir que su padre (Vincent Cassel) ha regresado a Francia para siempre. Tony busca entonces la compañía de los amigos de su padre, en busca de información de un modelo de hombre perdido. Se convierte en maestro de escuela y una figura protectora para los niños, en un intento de proporcionarles algo de lo que él mismo carece. Una serie de acontecimientos le llevan a un sorprendente desenlace sobre el paradero de su padre y las verdaderas razones por las que se marchó... Adaptación de la novela "Un padre de película" de Antonio Skármeta.
The Movie of My Life
Director of Photography
Sur de Brasil, en 1963. Tony (Johnny Massaro), hijo de un francés y una brasileña, es un joven enamorado del cine y la poesía que, tras graduarse en la universidad, vuelve a su pequeña ciudad natal en el Brasil rural para descubrir que su padre (Vincent Cassel) ha regresado a Francia para siempre. Tony busca entonces la compañía de los amigos de su padre, en busca de información de un modelo de hombre perdido. Se convierte en maestro de escuela y una figura protectora para los niños, en un intento de proporcionarles algo de lo que él mismo carece. Una serie de acontecimientos le llevan a un sorprendente desenlace sobre el paradero de su padre y las verdaderas razones por las que se marchó... Adaptación de la novela "Un padre de película" de Antonio Skármeta.
Uma Noite em Sampa
Director of Photography
People who moved from São Paulo, a large city, to the countryside, come back to see a play. Later, they learn the driver of their chartered bus has disappeared. Now, on the street, at night, they have to face themselves.
Whirlpool
Director of Photography
Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and boasting of his successful life in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. As the two sit down for a beer, memories, regrets and old resentments slowly resurface.
Cacaso
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.
Quanto Tempo o Tempo Tem
Director of Photography
We live in a new age. We are always rushing, rushing for no reason, rushing for nothing. As though time had sped up. Everything implies speed, urgency. But ultimately, why does time seem so short? This film is about the director’s conflict about time and the lack of it in today’s world; she reflects on civilization and the future of existence.
About Cinema
Director
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.
Brincante
Director
A lyrical look at Antonio Nóbrega’s universe. A lifetime’s work that is characterized by the consistent reading of popular culture. A show in which all elements of our culture are mixed together. A musical and visual journey, guided by the characters Joáo Sidurino and Rosalina from the plays Brincante and Segundas Histórias.
Getulio
Director of Photography
La película muestra la crisis política que llevó al suicidio del presidente Getúlio Vargas, en los 19 días que precedieron al 24 de agosto de 1954.
Sentimental Education
Director of Photography
La educación sentimental se centra en la relación única entre Áurea, una solitaria maestra de 40 años, y un joven al que acaba de conocer por casualidad, uno de esos encuentros en los que abundan la mitología y la literatura. Un alma delicada que se siente atraída por una belleza que parece exigirla, molestarla y conmoverla. Eso la sacude por completo. Durante los días posteriores a su primera conversación, ella expondrá todos sus sentimientos a través de clases en las que él se dejará llevar. Hasta que un episodio inusual del pasado se revela y cambia todo.
Mônica Salmaso - Alma Lírica Ao Vivo
Director
Between Valleys
Director of Photography
This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man, living as a hugadores—one of the homeless, trash scavengers who live and work in Brazil’s enormous garbage dumps. Vicente seems to have it all, but as we watch his life begins to crumble little by little. Meanwhile, Antônio, already at rock bottom, struggles to rebuild his life.
Astro: An Urban Fable in a Magical Rio de Janeiro
Cinematography
Marighella
Additional Photography
This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla". Greatest name of the left-wing militancy in Brazil in the 1960s, Carlos Marighella acted in the main political events of Brazil between the 1930s and 1969 and was considered enemy number one of the Brazilian military dictatorship. His life was a great act of resistance and courage.
Rat Fever
Director of Photography
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
Raul - O Início, o Fim e o Meio
Director
As the world boiled in the rush of Easy Rider bikes, in the frenetic pace of Elvis Presley, in Beatniks poets, in the explosion of counterculture, a boy from Bahia gave birth to Rock in Brazil. A runaway flying saucer that abducted the hearts and minds of thousands of fans, Raul Seixas, a man who became a myth. Raul died young because he lived intensely. Rock n 'roll, free love, alternative society, drugs, black magic, military dictatorship, women and daughters. A man who wanted to live from his work and died for it. The beginning, the end and the middle are confused, because the story is not over. The film reveals through rare images of archive, meeting with relatives, conversations with artists, producers and friends, the trajectory of the legend of Rock.
Heleno (Príncipe Maldito)
Director of Photography
Una mirada acronológica y en profundidad a la vida de Heleno (1920-1959), mítico y controvertido futbolista brasileño de los cuarenta. Conocido como «Gilda» por su temperamento violento, Heleno fue el príncipe de la edad dorada de Río de Janeiro. Apuesto, encantador y refinado en los elegantes salones de baile, tenía un carácter explosivo y lleno de pasión en la cancha. Heleno estaba seguro de que era el futbolista brasileño más grande de todos los tiempos, pero la guerra, la sífilis y una turbulenta vida lo alejaron de ese destino de gloria, precipitando la tragedia.
The Absence That Moves Us
Director of Photography
Stolen Dreams
Director of Photography
Jéssica, Sabrina y Daiane sueñan, como sueñan los jóvenes de cualquier clase social y lugar del mundo. Vecinas de un barrio pobre de los suburbios de Rio de Janeiro, eventualmente se prostituyen para sobrevivir y satisfacer sus deseos de consumo. Dentro de este cuadro de absoluta confusion y falta total de horizontes, Jéssica, Sabrina e Daiane se obstinan en amar, divertirse y vislumbrar un futuro.
Budapeste
Director
José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects.
Sertão: Veredas
Director of Photography
The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Director of Photography
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
The Herb of the Rat
Director of Photography
The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take care of her while He is alive. This is the beginning of an odd relationship.
Cinematography
Self
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.
The Ballroom
Director of Photography
An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and desire is an antidote to grumpy old men and women everywhere.
Iluminados
Self
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.
Cleopatra
Director of Photography
The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to protect their civilization.
Santiago
Director of Photography
Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.
Bog of Beasts
Associate Producer
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Bog of Beasts
Director of Photography
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Love for Sale
Director of Photography
In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.
Moacir Art Brut
Director
Facing many problems, such as impaired hearing and speaking, abnormal bone formation and poverty, Brazilian black naïve artist Moacir lives in the National Park of Chapada dos Veadeiros, aloof and oblivious of outside world, and was discovered by director Walter Carvalho in the 1980s. He spends his days drawing marvellous works with his crayons, depicting human and fantastic beings, fauna, flora, his own inner visions, mystical themes and sex, with a trace of impressive primitivism and beauty. The film registers his daily life.
The Machine
Director of Photography
In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to Karina. For that, Antônio leaves town and announces, in a TV show that he will set off on a sensational adventure: a trip into the future, starting from Nordestina’s square. A story where dreams contradict reality, geographical and political conditions threaten to block life, and love plays the part of the transforming element.
La mala hora
Director of Photography
En un pueblo aislado y agobiado por las lluvias torrenciales, los habitantes viven no solamente en la miseria, sino también hostigados por la represión política. Existe una guerra por el poder entre la familia que detenta el control económico de la región y el interventor enviado por el Gobierno central. Por si esto no fuera suficiente, aparecen panfletos anónimos pegados en las puertas de las casas, revelando las intimidades de sus moradores. En medio de este caos, surgen todo tipo de pasiones, traiciones y venganzas, sin que los implicados sepan dónde empieza la verdad y dónde acaba la mentira. Basada en la novela de Gabriel García Márquez La mala hora, la película cuenta una historia de amor y odio en la que el pasado y el futuro se confunden. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Spirit of Zé Lins
Camera Operator
Documentary on the life and work of José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), one of Brazil's greatest 20th century literary authors, writer of celebrated novels "Menino de Engenho", "Fogo Morto", "Moleque Ricardo", "Riacho Doce" and many more.
Delicate Crime
Director of Photography
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
Cazuza, El Tiempo No Se Detiene
Director of Photography
Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.
Cazuza, El Tiempo No Se Detiene
Director
Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.
Heliorama
Director of Photography
A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound regarding the late plastic artist Helio Oititica.
Vladimir Carvalho, Conterrâneo Velho de Guerra
Ele mesmo
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Director of Photography
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Filme de Amor
Director of Photography
Tres amigos, Hilda, Matilda y Gaspar, se encuentran en un pequeño apartamento del centro de la ciudad durante un fin de semana para hablar, beber y obtener placer. (FILMAFFINITY)
Carandiru
Director of Photography
La película está basada en las experiencias del doctor Drauzio Varella en la prisión estatal Carandiru, en São Paulo, Brasil, durante sus trabajos de prevención del SIDA. En la prisión se encontró con cientos de convictos bajo condiciones infrahumanas hasta el punto culminante de 1992 cuando una revuelta provocó el asesinato de 111 hombres.
Thomaz Farkas, Brasileiro
Additional Photography
Madame Satã
Director of Photography
Río de Janeiro, años treinta. João dos Santos era pobre, hijo adoptivo, negro y homosexual confeso. Su ficha policial sumaba tres mil peleas y tres homicidios. Decía que no peleaba, se defendía.
Mango Yellow
Director of Photography
In a poor neighborhood in Recife, the lives of exotic and bizarre characters entwine in a bar and in a very low-budget hotel. The queer Dunga works in the hotel and has a crush on the butcher Wellington that is married with the religious Kika and has an affair with his mistress Dayse. The sick necrophiliac Isaac owns a yellow Mercedes Benz and wants to have sex with Lígia that owns of Bar Avenida.
Detrás del sol
Director of Photography
Historia de dos familias terratenientes rurales de una región de Brasil que llevan generaciones enfrentadas en una disputa por tierras que siempre ha terminado en violencia. La más reciente manifestación de esa pelea es la sentencia de muerte que pesa sobre el primogénito de una de las familias, acusado de haber dado muerte precisamente al primogénito de la familia rival. (FILMAFFINITY)
A la izquierda del padre
Director of Photography
En una atmósfera brasileña, pero dominada por un soplo de la tradición clásica mediterránea, es la versión al revés del hijo pródigo. Drama trágico de la eterna lucha entre la tradición y la libertad, bajo el escudo del tiempo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Janela da Alma
Director of Photography
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link the interviews, which vary from deep to funny to poetic.
Janela da Alma
Writer
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link the interviews, which vary from deep to funny to poetic.
Janela da Alma
Director
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link the interviews, which vary from deep to funny to poetic.
Favorite Son
Director of Photography
Claudia Maccari, an Italian doctor who has a Brazilian adopted son suffering from leukemia, goes to Rio de Janeiro to find the child's biological mother for a transplant. She is reluctantly helped by a Detective.
Possible Loves
Director of Photography
Fifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits, something happens which will change his life. A scene, an encounter, an unfinished sentence... Something insignificant, but which will determine the character's life. Fifteen years later, we follow three completely different versions of Carlos's life. In one, he is a man divided between the stability of a secure life in a lukewarm marriage, and the growing desire to live a great love affair. In the second, he is homosexual and places passion above all else. In the third possible life, Carlos is a man who hasn't yet discovered love, and lives through successive disastrous relationships in search of the perfect woman. One of them is his real life. Another is not his life. And a third is the life he'd like to lead. Which is his true life ?
A Canga
Director of Photography
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
Director of Photography
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
News from a Personal War
Director of Photography
Documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped into a daily war that knows no winners.
Adão ou Somos Todos Filhos da Terra
Director of Photography
Estación central de Brasil
Director of Photography
En los asfixiantes pasillos de la Estación Central, en Río de Janeiro, una antigua maestra se gana la vida escribiendo las cartas que le dictan los analfabetos. Endurecida por la soledad y por la adversidad, Dora ha ido cayendo en una estoica indiferencia. Sin embargo, cuando una de sus clientes muere atropellada a la salida de la estación, decide hacerse cargo de su hijo y llevarlo a casa de su padre en una remota zona del nordeste de Brasil.
Futebol
Director of Photography
El primer día (Midnight)
Director of Photography
El destino de Joao, preso en una cárcel de Río de Janeiro, nunca debería haberse cruzado con el de María, aislada en su apartamento. Sin embargo, el 31 de diciembre de 1999 Joao se escapa de la prisión y se produce un encuentro inesperado entre ellos, mientras llega el primer día...
Little Book of Love
Director of Photography
Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruinous relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. But they will try to, even if their friends Barata (a convict bachelor totally skeptical when it comes to love) and Marta (a mathematic analyst who wishes that human relations were just as exact as numbers are) think otherwise.
Tierra extranjera
Director of Photography
Brasil, marzo de 1990. El plan económico del gobierno brasileño de Collor empuja al país al caos. La vida de Paco, un joven estudiante paulista, se desmorona con la muerte de su madre y acaba con su sueño de ser actor. Paco decide abandonar su país y marcharse a España, la tierra de su madre, aceptando llevar antes a Lisboa un objeto de contrabando. Allí conoce a Álex, el amor y el peligro de morir...
Jorge Amado
Camera Operator
Cinema de Lágrimas
Director of Photography
An aging Brazilian actor teams up with a film student on a trip to Mexico, in order to find out an unknown movie his mother allegedly watched before she committed suicide.
Socorro Nobre
Director of Photography
Cuando la reclusa Maria do Socorro Nobre lee un artículo sobre el artista polaco Franz Krajcberg en la revista Veja, decide escribirle una carta. Socorro fue condenado a más de veintiún años en una prisión para mujeres en Salvador, Bahía, mientras que Franz es un artista atormentado que perdió a su familia y vivió su infancia en un gueto en Polonia pero sobrevivió al holocausto. Franz se mudó a Brasil y recuperó el deseo de vivir viviendo cerca de la naturaleza e inspira a Socorro a soñar con la vida nuevamente.
Nosso Amigo Radamés Gnattali
Director of Photography
Creative documentary on multi-faceted Brazilian musician Radames Gnattali
O Círculo de Fogo
Director of Photography
Xuxa e os Trapalhões em O Mistério de Robin Hood
Director of Photography
A kind wanderer living around a circus, who also happens to work as a modern Robin Hood, must solve the mystery behind the kidnapping of a lost little girl he meets.
Uma Escola Atrapalhada
Director of Photography
A real state agency wants to buy and demolish the traditional school Matheus Rose, to use the lot to build a hotel. The proposition unleashes a feel of distrust among the school students and staff, especially with the arrival of new, mysterious students.
Conterrâneos Velhos de Guerra
Cinematography
Documentary about the people who came from all over Brazil to work in the construction of the city of Brasilia, their stories, and the abuse and humiliation they suffered in the process.
Cesium-137
Director of Photography
In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accident in the history of Brazil.
How Nice to See You Alive
Director of Photography
Four years after a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government in 1964, all civil rights were suspended and torture became a systematic practice. Using a mix of fiction and documentary this extraordinary film is a searing record of personal memory, political repression and the will to survive. Interviews with eight women who were political prisoners during the military dictatorship are framed by the fantasies and imaginings of an anonymous character, portrayed by actress Irene Ravache.
Sonhei com Você
Director of Photography
Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.
The Inspector
Director of Photography
Crime and crime-fighting in Rio de Janeiro. With the master of disguise, the great police inspector Jamil Warwar, playing himself in the film. Jamil became famous by solving the Caso Cláudia, denouncing the involvement of politics and famous personalities of Brazilian society with the international drug traffic. He was punished by his superiors, being transferred to an obscure small town of the hinterlands. The psychology, the methods and philosophy of a detective known as the Brazilian Baretta. A sort of popular Hamlet, a lone star lost in the very dangerous galaxy of the police of Rio de Janeiro.
Terra Para Rose
Camera Operator
Documentary about the oppression of a group of a families of the MST, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement, who invaded Anoni Farm, a farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1985, and Rose, a woman fighting for the right of owning a land and for elementary human rights, and mother of the first baby born in the camping site.
Si tu vas à Rio... tu meurs
Cinematography
Twin brothers arrive in Rio during the Carnival. One is a priest and is going to work in a parish; the other, a drug-dealer, in a business trip to sell cocaine. They’re not aware of each other’s presence. People expecting them always get in touch with the wrong guy.
Damas da Noite
Director of Photography
Os Trapalhões no Auto da Compadecida
Director of Photography
In the small town of Taperoá João Grilo and confusion Chicó live setting, addressing a sacristan and a humble baker. Everyone lives under the excesses of the bishop, the priest and the major. Until an attack on the city, all die at the hands of the bandit Severino and must stand trial in the sky, which puts everyone before God and the Virgin Mary.
Brasília, Uma Sinfonia
Director of Photography
Pedro Mico
Director of Photography
Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta
Director of Photography
In Nilópolis, Eliane, a 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of a lower-middle-class couple, falls in love with Otávio, a 33-year-old divorcee. Upon learning of the relationship, Eliane's parents forbid her to meet her lover.
Sargento Getúlio
Director of Photography
In the 40s, a sergeant is ordered to escort a political prisoner from Paulo Afonso to Aracaju, Brazil. During the trip, there's a change in the Government and he is ordered to release the prisoner. But he decides to go all the way.
O Homem de Areia
Director of Photography
Boi de Prata
Director of Photography
Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro (José Marinho). Desperate, Antônio rushes to the aid of the gypsy healer Maria dos Remédios (Luiza Maranhão) and the poet and dreamer Tião Poeta (Lenicio Queirogo) to face the greed of Elói.
A, B, C, Brasil
Camera Operator
Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) that culminated in the creation of the Workers' Party - PT
Flamengo Paixão
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Documentary about Flamengo, one of the most popular soccer teams in Brazil
Brasília Segundo Feldman
Additional Photography
Dia de Erê
Director of Photography
Pankararu do Brejo dos Padres
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Brinquedo Popular do Nordeste
Director of Photography
Viola Chinesa
Director of Photography
The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and improvised text, we discover a little manifesto to the Brazilian experimental cinema. Also called "Belair's last film," Chinese Viola reveals the first partnership between photographer Walter Carvalho and Bressane.
Quilombo
Director of Photography
Documentary made in the municipality of Luziânia - Goiás, presenting a black community, a remnant of the old quilombo.
Anatomia do Espectador
Director of Photography
A Pedra da Riqueza
Director of Photography
The contrast in the extremely rudimentary form of xelite mining and the use of tungsten, obtained from xelite, in the most complex instruments of nuclear technology.
Mutirão
Director of Photography
A population close to Brasília receives a group of people from the big city that tries to recover lost elements of the local culture
O Último Dia de Lampião
Director of Photography
A docufiction film about the fall of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, widely known as Lampião – the mythical bandit leader from the Brazilian northeast who fought the local power and put his name in history.
Vila Boa de Goyaz
Title Graphics
Incelência para um Trem de Ferro
Director of Photography