Reinaldo Cardenuto
Acting
Biography
Reinaldo Cardenuto is a professor at Fluminense Federal University (Brazil). Among the books he has written are Antonio Benetazzo, permanências do sensível (Antonio Benetazzo, permanences of the sensitive) (2016) and Por um cinema popular: Leon Hirszman, política e resistência (In defense of a popular cinema: Leon Hirszman, politics and resistance) (2020, finalist for the Jabuti Award). He also makes documentaries, notably Entre imagens (intervalos) (Among Images [Intervals]) (2016) and Acabaram-se os otários, uma reconstituição (No More Suckers, a Reconstruction) (2019-25). He is currently conducting research on the relationships between history, cinema, dramaturgy, and theater.
Known For
In Esdras Baptista's film archives, kept at his home for decades, one can feel the fervor of those who believed in a new tomorrow. Filmed in Brazil in the early 1960s, in the heat of a libertarian political movement, the filmmaker's images materialize the incandescence of collective desires at the historic moment of their emergence. Utopia, though unattainable, is never a mere abstraction. A force that mobilizes actions and feelings, it constitutes the impetus necessary for human existence.
A Film to Remind Us of Utopia
Armando Costa was one of Brazil's most successful authors, both in terms of audience and critical acclaim, responsible for shows like "A Grande Família" and "Malu Mulher." Despite this, he didn't care about fame or signing his works.