The film school you wish existed, told by the rebels who built it.
The documentary VINTE - RioFilme, 20 anos de cinema brasileiro is a celebration of these two decades of Brazilian cinema, revealing the role of RioFilme in its recent history. Created in late 1992, shortly after the impeachment of Fernando Collor and shortly before the Audiovisual Law, RioFilme is the daughter of our democratic consolidation and the mother of the recovery, which contributed to and often inaugurated different phases of Brazilian cinema, until the current strengthening of its economy and the multiplication of the diversity of its films.
Direction
Diegues crafts love letter without losing critical edge.
Production
Rare archival footage of 90s film sets and chaotic premieres.
Director
Carlos Diegues
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
RioFilme's creation timing—post-Collor, pre-Audiovisual Law—makes it a case study in how cultural institutions survive political whiplash.
Walter Salles appears here as interview subject, not director; ironic given his later role as Brazil's global cinematic ambassador.
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