Acting
Nelson Sargento OMC (Rio de Janeiro, July 25, 1924 – Rio de Janeiro, May 27, 2021), artistic name of Nelson Mattos, was a Brazilian composer, singer, researcher of Brazilian popular music, visual artist, actor, and writer.
A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out about his family and where he came from.
A documentary about the celebration of the National Samba Day with the aim of preserving the memory of part of the history of samba, which was being forgotten by the press and the Brazilian people.
Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.
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.
Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.
Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives.
Biographical portrait of samba dancer Nelson Sargento in Morro da Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro.
Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira).