Historias Cruzadas / Crossing Stories - Fragment 7 minutes

www.auxdocks.com - documentary by Alice de Andrade 53'. France, Brazil 2008.

Alice de Andrade, daughter of Cinema Novo pioneer Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, draws up a portrait of her father. Its also an occasion to review the recent history of Brazil - before, during and after the military dictatorship.

As a founder of Cinema Novo, contemporary of the Italian Neorealist movement, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade wrote and directed fourteen movies, documentaries and fictions between 1959 and 1981. From the beginning of this period, Andrade and his friends (Nelson Pereira back Santos, Mario Carneiro, Leon Hirzsman, Zelito Vianna, Carlos Alberto, Prates Correa, Glauber Rocha) revolutionize cinema in Brazil, decided to draw a faithful picture of realities. But the coup d'état of 1964 by the military shakes the movement profoundly. Some take the way of exile, whereas Andrade chooses to stay. This is the reason for the small amount of films produced by the film-maker, who has to constantly evade an increasingly suffocating censorship.

Film amongst others selected at:
FIPATEL France 2009
Festival de la Habana Cuba 2009
Festival Tepoztlán Mexico 2009
E Tudo Verdade Brazil

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Joaquim
• Pedro
• de
• Andrade
• Cinema
• Novo
• Macunaíma
• Alice
• tropicalismo