Documentaries
Helena Meirelles, Viola Pantaneira
Documentary about the famous violist who was internationally known after being found by her family after being 30 years disappeared. The movie shows her music and images of her first visit to São Paulo, in 1992.
Time: 12 min.
Year: 2001 - Beta Cam
Killer Savers
Documentary about ROTA, a batallion of São Paulo's Policía Militar which carries the number of most civilians killed in the state, and denounces a strategy which hurt the human rights. It puts on display the action method of the battalion, the harshness with the suspects but also the death of innocent people and the grief of their families.
Time: 52 min.
Year: 1998 - Beta Cam
Ecological Naturism
The documentary is about the people who left behind the stressful life of the big cities, creating a condominium where they live without clothes, looking to have a better relationship with nature.
Time: 72 min.
Year: 1996 - Beta Cam
This Roof is Mine
The documentary is about the lack of housing in the big cities. Shows the cycle of invasions, the solutions found to live, and how the absence of a housing policy caused all of this.
Time: 45 min.
Year: 1993 - Beta Cam
Paraguay's Traffic Route (two parts)
Documentary filmed during the golden age of the commerce made with smuggled goods from Paraguay. It also investigates the traffic route of cars, electronic products and drugs from Paraguay to Brazil.
Time: 45 mim
Year: 1993 - Beta Cam
Tietê Bus Terminal
A documentary about the everyday of São Paulo's bus station, the world's second biggest considering the flow of people. It shows curious data and looks at the social side of the place, which even serves as home for the homeless.
Time: 45 min
Year: 1993 - Beta Cam
Quilombo, a Adventure in the Vão das Almas
Documentary about a community of about four thousand people of African origins in the oldest and most preserved "quilombo" in Brazil, the Kalunga, in Serra Geral, in the border of the states of Goiás, Bahia and Tocantins.
Time: 55 min.
Year: 1991 - S-VHS
Art Censorship and Freedom
This is the first documentary to take a serious approach over the dark years (military dictatorship) in Brazil, and to show how the censorship acted in cinema, music, theater, literature and journalism. It brings an interview with Chico Buarque.
Time: 55 min.
Year: 1992 - Beta Cam
The Legacy of Chico Mendes
The documentary shows the life of the rubber extractors from the state of Acre, for whom Chico Mendes fought, defending their rights, and for it lost his life. And it also shows the struggle to keep intact the natural reservation that carries his name.
Time: 72 min.
Year: 1992 - SVHS
The Brazilian Chauvinism
It exposes the behavior of the Brazilian man in different regions of Brazil and how it affects the women. Documentary showing the profile of the so called macho in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais and Ceará.
Time: 45 min.
Year: 1991 - SVHS
