Andrea Ormond is a Brazilian film scholar, focusing on feminist cinema and the cinema of São Paulo. She is the author of the book Ensaios de Cinema Brasileiro.
Helena Solberg: Entre as Marias, O Aleph, e a Contracultura
Todos sabem que Carmen nasceu em Portugal. Veio criança para o Brasil, no início do século XX. Uma garota coquete, lindinha, vendedora de loja. Eram os roaring twenties, a América Latina, o Rio de Janeiro, a capital federal dos “Estados Unidos do Brazil” – nome que, desde 1889, passou a batizar o antigo Império.
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In 1974, Sérgio Ricardo’s A Noite do Espantalho, shot entirely in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, was shown at the New York Film Festival. It was not until forty five years later, when Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Bacurau came to the New York Film Festival in 2019, that Ricardo returned to New York City, this time through song.
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This past September, the staff of Limite had the opportunity to conduct an interview with the Workers of the Cinemateca Brasileira (Trabalhadores da Cinemateca Brasileira) , the collective representing the archivists and staff of Brazil’s largest film archive, who have been fighting for nearly an entire year for the survival of this vital institution.
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The following interview took place with archivist Hernani Heffner on July 4th, 2020. Heffner has been working at Rio de Janeiro’s historic Cinemateca do MAM since 1996 and is one of Brazil’s most important film archivists.
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