Natália de Castro is an audiovisual preservationist and a public servant at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has a master's degree in Media and Audiovisual Processes from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP) and a degree in Cinema from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF). She currently works as technical director at the Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Preservation (ABPA).
Alain Fresnot on Nitrato (1974)
Seu curta-metragem Nitrato tem sido bastante revisitado nos últimos anos, em mostras de cinema, festivais e agora no Cinelimite. Além do frescor estético do filme, não podemos deixar de notar a absoluta contemporaneidade do tema abordado - a Cinemateca Brasileira - que atravessa uma grave crise.
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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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