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Zózimo Bulbul
A Brazilian filmmaker, actor, producer and screenwriter, Jorge da Silva, better known by his stage name Zózimo Bulbul, is regarded as a household name of black Brazilian cinema. He was also the founder of Rio de Janeiro's Black Cinema Center ("Centro Afro Carioca de Cinema").
As an actor, he worked in over 30 features, and was directed by filmmakers such as Glauber Rocha (in "Terra em Transe"), Carlos Diegues ("Quilombo") and Antunes Filho ("Compasso de Espera"), becoming the first black man to play a main character in a Brazilian TV soap opera, in 1969's "Vidas em Conflito".
His debut as a filmmaker was 1974's black and white short "Alma no Olho". With his work focusing in raising awareness to Brazilian black culture, Bulbul remained an active filmmaker until his death in 2013. His most well known film, as a director, is 1988's "Abolição", a lengthy documentary that gives critical thoughts on Brazil's 1888's ending of slavery and in what changed for the country's Black people over the course of a century.
Filmography
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Giselle
Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, fo...
Entranced Earth
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the...
Quilombo
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibl...
The Girl from Ipanema
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Má...
Vidas em Conflito
The Girl and the Rapist
In São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother, practically rais...
5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected thr...
The Forest
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and...
Ganga Zumba
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
The Suns of Easter Island
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in...
Hung Up
A woman from a bourgeois family marries a loveless man. She remembers (or dreams?) a life of adventure and smug...
The Naked Man
A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
The Palace of Angels
Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends transform a small apartment into a luxury bordello,...
Daughters of the Wind
In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.
Compasso de Espera
Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich...
Garden of War
Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to g...
Our Lady of Compassion
João Grilo is a backwoodsman who tries to get along at the expense of the powerful in the city, who pretend to...
Black Goddess
A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken pri...
Parceiros da Aventura
Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals...
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement...
El Justicero
A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire o...
Natal da Portela
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance o...
Referências
During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de...
Artesanato do Samba
The making of the samba school parades, with the construction of the great cars, the decorations being spread a...
In Evil Hour
The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless...
Soul in the Eye
Inspired by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s book Soul on Ice and dedicated to John Coltrane, Soul in the Eye m...
Abdias Nascimento
Five Times Favela
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
Sagarana: O Duelo
Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and br...
True Brazil
In the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of doc...
Samba no Trem
A documentary about the celebration of the National Samba Day with the aim of preserving the memory of part of...
Ana, a Libertina
República da Traição
European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local ma...
Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring
In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeopl...
Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino
A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albin...