Inside the Fires Ravaging Brazil’s Film Community

storage facility in São Paulo’s Vila Leopoldina, belonging to the Cinemateca Brasileira, the largest collection of moving images in South America. Firemen fought to contain the blaze for over four hours, as bright-red flames and thick smoke engulfed the top floors of a warehouse that houses the bulk of Brazil’s national cinematic output.

Among the famous films stored at the federally funded Cinemateca are Anselmo Duarte’s The Payer of Vows, which won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1962, and Cinema Novo classics like Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s Barren Lives (1963), Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil (1964), and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade’s Macunaíma (1969).

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