Luiz Carlos Saldanha Movies

The origins of Brazilian popular music and the types of scales used, as well as the various currents that emerged and formed different schools. The...

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and...

The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and...

The religiosity of slave society is evident throughout the Pelourinho area: oratories and altars, cornices and windows, balconies and ornaments, both...

Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a...

In a beautiful coastal retreat, a seductive young woman ignites a rivalry between two surfers vying for her affection. One of them is trying to move...

Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts...

The documentary depicts the everyday of illiterate rural workers in Northeast Brazil, living under extreme misery. Although incapable of writing,...

This film denounces the exploitation of natural resources by certain industries of extraction and transformation. This documentary is considered as...

The history of Partido-Alto, a musical subgenre derived from Samba, with roots in the batucada of Bahia.

Three artists from São Paulo - Leda Catunda, Leonilson and Ciro Cozzolino - talk about their work and the rebirth of painting through pop,...

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose...

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound regarding the late plastic artist Helio Oititica.