Adriano da Silva Denovac is an historian, doctoral student of the post-graduate program in History at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Catarina, and partner of Emitai productions.
The filmaker and th Saint: Juliana do Amor Perdido
Juliana do Amor Perdido was shown hors concours at the 1970 Berlin Festival. It was shot between 1969 and 1972 on the seashores of the state of São Paulo, in Guarujá and Piracicaba. The film was produced by both Entrefilmes and Vera Cruz, and it was distributed in Brazil by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
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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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