Director: Eryk Rocha

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Birthday: 1978-01-19
Born in: Brasilia, Brazil
Biography: Erik Aruak Gaítán Rocha is a Brazilian film director, producer, editor, and cinematographer. He is the son of film director Glauber Rocha. "He studied cinema at the San Antonio de Los Baños School in Cuba, where he produced Rocha que voa (2002)." It won best film in the É Tudo Verdade International Festival, the CineSul Festival, and the Saul Yelín Choir at the New Latin American Cinema Festival in Havana in 2002. The film also won the title of Best Masterpiece at the Rosário Festival in Argentina in 2003

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Cinema Novo

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.
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Burning Night

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.
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The Editing of the Brazilian Northeast

In order to invent a region, it is necessary to create its culture, preferably with the help of cinema. Inspired by the book and play “A Invenção do Nordeste”, this is a re-editing of Brazilian films essential to the foundation of the Northeastern imaginary.
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Light in the Tropics

A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating the indigenous peoples of continental America and flowing as a film as freely as a winding river.
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