Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Nelson Pereira dos Santos was born in 1928 in São Paulo. According to the Jornal do Brasil, he graduated in law in 1952 and worked as a proofreader and reporter in the São Paulo press, then in Rio. A member of the Communist Party in his youth, he was an assistant director in the early 1950s, then one of the founders of Cinema Novo. He created the film course at the Fluminense Federal University, where he taught. Elected in 2006 to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, he was the first filmmaker to sit there according to AdoroCinema. He died in Rio on 21 April 2018.

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• CinemaRio, 100 Degrees F.Rio, 40 grausNelson Pereira dos Santos · 1955Cinema