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Links for Brazilian film:
"Adoro Cinema Brasileiro" ("I Love Brazilian Film") is a website for fans. Lots of information about current
and classic films.
Brazilian Film Festival of Miami, New York, Barcelona, China...
Brazil Information Center (Washington, DC)
Brazilian-American Cultural Institute (Washington, DC) VHS lending library
Brazilian Cinema Promotion / Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV
Cinema Brasil (database, screenplays, information)
Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo)
Note: Brazilian DVDs are often coded for South American use only and are not compatible with North American and European players.
DVDs can be ordered for shipment to addresses in Brazil.
The Agência Nacional do Cinema (ANCINE) is responsible for promoting and regulating the Brazilian film and video industries.
(in Portuguese)
Embassy of Brazil (Washington, DC)
Facets Multimedia (Chicago). A good source for Brazilian and other Latin American VHS videocassettes and DVDs.
DVD Shopping, São Paulo. Source of "semi-new" (read: used) DVDs and tapes. Note: Most DVDs are restricted to players and computers
set for the South American region.
Funarte / Decine: Ministry of Culture site for Brazilian film development. Database, gallery, shop (Rio de Janeiro)
Gramado Festival of Brazilian and Latin American Films, every August in Gramado (Rio Grande do Sul)
Kinoforum / Associação Cultural Kinoforum (São Paulo)
Museu da Imagem e do Som (Rio de Janeiro)
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Riofilme: database and promotion (Rio de Janeiro)
2001 Video (online store: books, VHS, DVD)
Some useful books:
Although there is a huge bibliography in Portuguese about Brazilian film, there is remarkably little in English. A standard
and very useful text:
--Randal Johnson and Robert Stam, editors, "Brazilian Cinema." Expanded edition. New York: Columbia University Press,
1995.
--Another useful book in English is "Cinema Novo and Beyond," the catalogue issued in late 1998 at the time of a
retrospective of Brazilian films at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
--"O Cinema Brasileiro / The Films from Brazil" is a bilingual book edited by Amir Labaki and published by PubliFolha,
São Paulo, in 1998. The book contains essays, photographs, filmographies, and original newspaper reviews published in the
"Folha de São Paulo" of major films from 1961 to 1998.
--a fine source in Portuguese is the "Enciclopédia do Cinema Brasileiro," published in 1997 by Editora Senac, São
Paulo, under the general editorship of Fernão Ramos and Luiz Felipe Miranda.
A fine CD-ROM:
"Em Memória" is an excellent CD-ROM reference (Microsoft Windows platform only) produced in 1996 by the Cinemateca
Brasileira (São Paulo). The CD contains extensive information about 15 Brazilian directors including three whose work is represented
in the proposed series: Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman, and Luiz Sérgio Person.
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