Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade was born on 25 May 1932 in Rio de Janeiro, the son of Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade, founder of the national historical and artistic heritage service. According to Senses of Cinema, he studied physics, then won scholarships to the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris, the Slade School in London and to study direct cinema in New York, and was briefly imprisoned by the dictatorship in 1969. Coming to cinema through short films and documentaries, he was one of the figures of Cinema Novo. He died in Rio on 10 September 1988.

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• CinemaMacunaímaJoaquim Pedro de Andrade · 1969Cinema