Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema

Directed by Ivelise Ferreira and Aida Marques

With Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Grande Otelo, Luiz Carlos Barreto and Jorge Amado

For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. Precursor of Cinema Novo, Nelson was, more than a director, he was an ideologue, a thinker of his country.