Débora Butruce is an audiovisual preservationist, researcher and cultural producer. She is pursuing her doctoral degree in Media and Audiovisual Processes at the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP), she acted as a Visiting Scholar at NYU, she has a master's degree in Communication and a degree in Cinema from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF). She works in audiovisual preservation since 2001, in Brazil and internationally. She is a founding member and current president of the Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Preservation (ABPA).
A restauração de filmes no Brasil e o advento da tecnologia: Um breve panorama
Minha inserção profissional em preservação audiovisual coincide com o início da utilização das ferramentas digitais na área de restauração de filmes 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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