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Nelson Antônio da Silva (October 29, 1911 – February 18, 1986), better known by the stage name Nelson Cavaquinho, was one of the most important singer/composers of samba.
He is usually seen as a representative of the tragic aspects of samba thematics, with many songs about death and hopelessness.
He was a prominent figure of samba school Estação Primeira de Mangueira.
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A documentary on the career of...Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho 2022
A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.
Follows the story of Opinio a...Memórias do Grupo Opinião 2019
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
Based on Gertrude Steins eponymously named...Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters 2019
Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s adaptation, set almost a century later in contemporary Paris, deploys Stein’s script as a talismanic guide through a contemporary moment of comparable social and political unrest. An original soundtrack, written especially for the film by British composer Laurence Crane, responds to the repetition, duplication and duality at play in Stein’s script. Both a fictional thriller and an act of collective representation, Deux Soeurs proposes empathy and friendship as means to reckon with an increasingly turbulent present.
Chico Buarque is a constant presence...Chico: Brazilian Artist 2015
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.
Nelson Cavaquinho as seen by Ruy...
Two contrasting social groups get in...
A documentary short on the 1978 Carnaval...Rio, Carnaval da Vida 1978
A documentary short on the 1978 Carnaval celebration in Rio de Janeiro, covering many aspects of the celebration's popular culture.
Portrait of various figures in Brazilian...
Renowned Brazilian samba singersongwriter Nelson Cavaquinho...Nelson Cavaquinho: MPB Especial 1973
Renowned Brazilian samba singer-songwriter Nelson Cavaquinho performing at TV Cultura in 1973.
A short film of lovely poetic...Nelson Cavaquinho 1969
A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose adopted last name ‘Cavaquinho’ refers to the small guitar-like instrument that he played and used to compose his songs.
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