Gentil Roiz and Ary Severo

Gentil Roiz was one of the pioneers of the Recife cycle, a dozen fiction films shot in the city between 1923 and 1931 by some thirty young people. An engraver by trade, he owned a second-hand camera and wrote film scenarios, according to the journal Pesquisa. With Edson Chagas and Ary Severo he founded the company Aurora-Film, the main house of the cycle, which went bankrupt twice and closed in 1931. He directed the first fiction film shot in Pernambuco, thereby opening the cycle, and later co-directed with Ary Severo a drama about fishermen shot on the beaches of the city.

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• CinemaAitaré da PraiaGentil Roiz and Ary Severo · 1925Cinema