Joel Yamaji
Directing
Biography
Joel Yamaji is a film director, producer and professor.
Known For
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Alma Errante – Hibakusha
A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never seen, never edited.
Seen, Not Seen
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O Outro
Mixing new images to existing São Paulo movies takes, the documentary presents the city from the perspective of five main attributes: transformation, anonymity, crowd, precariousness and dimension.
São Paulo, Cinemacity
Documentary about Waldemar Iglésias, a man living in Sorocaba, Brazil, who has been to the movies on a daily basis for 58 years. He talks about his childhood, his dreams, his favorite actors and actresses and the classic movies and cartoons.
O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu
Remembrance of things past.
Impressions for Clara
Two sisters living their lifes.
A Ira
An ode of love and hatred to the city of São Paulo. Composed of fragments of films, it follows characters in their natural habitat: the streets.
São Paulo: Symphony and Cacophony
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Roma Amor
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A Rainha dos Cárceres da Grécia
Lyrical evocation of passages from the diary of Ashbel Green Simonton who, in 1859, arrived in Brazil with the purpose of dividing his faith amidst anguish, doubt and nostalgia for the lost unity, laying the foundations of Presbyterianism in the country.
The Diary of Simonton
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Cafundó
An existential profile of primitivist painter Ana Moisés in her atelier in Embu, on the outskirts of São Paulo.
Ana
In the city of São Paulo, two women visit the places where the pernambucano writer Osman Lins lived. Current residents do not allow them to enter these places. Excerpts from two of the author's main novels written in São Paulo - Avalovara e A rainha dos cárceres da Grécia - are mixed with the images of the city that transpire as one of the characters in the film.
Um Grão De Claridade: No Percurso de Osman Lins
Documentary made in 2014.