Joyce Pais is a journalist, post-graduate in Digital Media, and creator of the Cinemascope portal and the Clube das Diretoras. She worked for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, is a member of ABRACCINE (Brazilian Association of Film Critics) and Coletivo Elviras - Mulheres Críticas de Cinema. She has taught at the International Film Academy (AIC), Casa Guilherme de Almeida, Casas das Rosas, and the Cinema Institute (INC). Invited by Canal Brasil, she was part of the jury in festivals around the country such as CineramaBC, Mix Brasil, É Tudo Verdade, and Kinoforum. Curator of the short film competition at the 52nd Brasília Film Festival. Director and screenwriter of the documentary in post-production, Iracunda, that discusses Brazilian cinema through the eyes of women who are part of it.
Pode um galã sonhar?
Os anos 1930 chegaram embalados pelo entusiasmo com o cinema sonoro. A novidade técnica alteraria, rapidamente, a paisagem da produção cinematográfica no Brasil.
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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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