Directing
Nunciato Walter Avancini (São Caetano do Sul, April 18, 1935 — Rio de Janeiro, September 26, 2001) was a Brazilian writer, author, director of telenovelas and miniseries, and TV presenter.
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.
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyses race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to their likely influence on Brazilian African-Americans' identity-forming processes.
The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts from films and videos in which he acted.
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
The saga of Severino, a poor guy living in the back country of Northeast Brazil, leaving for the big city of Recife, in search of a better life.
When major drug-dealer Boca de Ouro dies, a reporter interviews his ex-lover, now married with children and living in a poorhouse, to try to understand more about his complex personality. The problem is that the woman tells him three different versions of Boca's life, according to her own mood and ambiguous feelings towards her dead lover.
Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments because the network that financed it went under.