Editing
Maximo Barro (São Paulo, April 13, 1930 - São Paulo, October 31, 2020) was a Brazilian film editor, teacher and writer.
A documentary on the life and work of Amácio Mazzaropi, a phenomenon of popularity and profitability of Brazilian cinema.
This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular artists. As a bonus, it shows parts of Mazzaropi's last appearance on TV, on Hebe Camargo Show.
In 1968, Orlando Lovecchio was made victim of a guerilla's bomb terrorist attack, which main objective was to fight against the Military Regime. Orlando lost one leg after the world-reckoned attack against the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo.
In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.
With archive footage and testimonials from former filmgoers, a story of movie theaters that were located on the avenues of São João and Ipiranga and its surroundings, in São Paulo's city centre. Known as Cinelândia Paulistana, this area lived its heyday in the 1950s, reaching more than 15 cinemas in full operation.
Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.
A documentary depicting the lives of Brazil’s star performers—the most famous women of the Revue Theater in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s—including Elvira Pagã, Luz Del Fuego, Virginia Lane, Angelita Martinez, and Salomé Parísio, among others.
An engaged couple discovers the corpse of a woman killed by strangulation in the Santo Amaro dam. Inspector Castro and his assistant, Pedro, start the investigation, collecting testimonies, and find a phone number with the name Conceição in the victim's pocket.
It is the story of Pedro, who after being passed over by his brothers, wanders the world in search of a better life, but on the way, finds children who eventually conquer it, and in order to help them, he passes scamming other people he met along the way, telling lies, however, always with the goal of helping him new friends. And kills a cow.
Zenó (Mazzaropi) is a poor gardener of a traditional school in São Paulo who falls in love with one of the local girls, much richer and younger than him. Willing to conquer her, he decides to get rich, getting involved in the most varied and funny situations.
The proletariat are exploited by the bourgeoisie inside a gigantic robot-building. The situation gets worse and worse until, one day, they decide to take action.
Tired of her boring husband, secretary Cordélia finds refuge in a love affair with her boss and afterwards, believes she has found true love in the person of a car salesman.
Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role.