Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the...
Theodoro Bezerra is a member of the Brazilian elite, a farmer and politician since the 1940s who has been elected as a state congressman by the state of Rio Grande do Norte. He concentrates on his own characteristics as a popular leader, despite being sexist and elitist, as well as using public...
Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays. The footage was edited by Coutinho’s longtime partner, film editor Jordana Berg, and the final cut is...
In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatever they can find to eat.
A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos.
In an open conversation with Eduardo Coutinho, the filmmaker analyzes the period he worked for Globo Repórter on TV Globo. During the military dictatorship, he produced documentaries with a strong social focus. This experience marked his transition into a documentary filmmaker. After his time at...
In June 1976, Eduardo Coutinho and film reporter Mário Ferreira traveled to the northeastern backlands to record the documentary Superstição. The film revealed the customs, legends, and beliefs of the country people.
Stimulated by sketches in which young actors improvise about situations related to AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), students from a public school in Rio de Janeiro and teenagers from the Zona Sul and the Baixada Fluminense debate these themes. This video was made by CECIP for the...
Documentary about the Latin American foreign debt, made in five blocks that cover everything from a brief history of debt to some possible alternatives for a solution, passing through the description of its mechanisms, its most serious crises and its social consequences.
After an initial meeting in 1964 interrupted by military dictatorship and a new meeting in the early 1980s to end the film "Twenty Years Later", Eduardo Coutinho once again find Elizabeth Teixeira, survivor of peasant struggles.
The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of police violence.
