Marcell Carrasco holds a Master’s degree in Social Communication from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and he is pursuing a post-graduate lato sensu in the Specialization Course of Cultural Journalism at Rio de Janeiro State University. Marcell was one of the articulators of the cultural collective Norte Comum and is a fixed collaborator of the editorial project Ginecosofía Brasil. He also participated and organized several congresses and seminars in the field of communications throughout his academic career. He is a researcher in the field of contemporary Brazilian cinema and black cinema.
Escavation an recollections around Zózimo Bulbul´s abolition
1988 marked the 100th anniversary of the Lei Áurea in Brazil, the legislation that officially emancipated slaves throughout the country.
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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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