Lima Barreto (director)

Brazilian film director

Film director
screenwriter

Years active1940–1982

Lima Barreto (23 June 1906 – 23 November 1982) was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter.^[1] He directed six films between 1940 and 1961. His film O Cangaceiro was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, where it was "much liked for its original and truly national flavour."^[2]

Filmography

Fazenda Velha (1940)
Painel (1951)
Santuário (1952)
O Cangaceiro (1953)
São Paulo em Festa (1954)
A Primeira Missa (1961)

References

^ Elena, Alberto; López, Marina Díaz (24 March 2004). The Cinema of Latin America. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231501941. Retrieved 6 March 2019 – via Google Books.
^ Anderson, Lindsay (1953). "Cannes 1953". Sight & Sound. 23 (1). British Film Institute: 18–20.