Author bio: Luciana Corrêa de Araújo holds a degree in Social Communication from the Federal University of Pernambuco (1987), a master's degree in Cinema from the University of São Paulo (1994) and a doctorate in Cinema from the University of São Paulo (1999). She did post-doctoral work at the Graduate Program in Multimedia at the University of Campinas (2001-2005). She is currently an adjunct professor at the Federal University of São Carlos. She has experience in the field of Communication, with emphasis in Cinema, studying mainly the following themes: cinema history, Brazilian cinema, silent cinema, film criticism.
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Alberto Cavalcanti in Recife: O canto do mar (1953)
When he arrived in the city of Recife, Brazil, in 1952 to shoot O canto do mar, filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti had already accomplished several feats in his brief, troubled, and memorable stint in the Brazilian film industry.
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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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