About

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39
Birthday:
1943-09-27
Place of birth:
Brazil
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Ana Carolina

Overview

Ana Carolina (born 27 September 1945) is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She directed seven films between 1969 and 2003.

In 1978, she was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1982 film Heart and Guts was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.

Ana Carolina Teixeira Soares attended school with the intention of becoming a doctor, but instead changed direction and became a filmmaker. She graduated in 1964 from University of São Paulo Med School. Several years later she went to a School of Physiotherapy, taking special interest in university politics. She also spent a few of her early years in a Renaissance band called "Musikantiga".

She was highly focused in her early years as a filmmaker, as she made 11 documentaries in her first eight years in the business (her first being in 1967, last in 1974).

Her first film released in 1977 was titled Mar de Rosas, translated into Everything is Fine. The film is shot from a feminist perspective with interpretations open to the viewer. Mar de Rosas tells the story of a woman that slits her husband’s throat and flees with her child. It provides commentary on patriarchy and feminist discontent. This discontent is not strictly limited to the characters within the fictional landscape and speaks much more broadly to the nation at whole.

In an interview based on audacity in cinema, Carolina had much to say in regards to the censorship she faced in her time making films in Brazil. She uses words such as hysterical and neurotic to describe the impact it had on her production of films. She claims that the limitations placed on her work actually caused her to be more rebellious and this influenced her work to be even more provocative. She goes on to admit that her work in Mar de Rosas is meant to be interpreted as an allusion to the outside world. Carolina had a highly influential role as a filmmaker in one of the most restrictive times in Brazil, the Military Dictatorship (1964-1985). Her battle against censorship trail-blazed a better path to social and political commentary in film. She fought against the censorship of films, but also the censorship of ideas.

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Known for

Acting
2010 Ana Carolina fala sobre Amélia Actor N/A
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2008 Back to Room 666 Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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2001 Ana Carolina no País do Cinema Actor Self N/A
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2001 A Linguagem do Cinema Actor 58
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1982 Room 666 Actor Self 59
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1978 O Direito de Nascer Actor Irmã Adelaide 69
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1978 Mulheres de Cinema Actor Self N/A
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Directing
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2014 A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum Directing Director 58
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2003 Gregório de Mattos Directing Director 59
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2000 Amélia Directing Director 59
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1987 After Eight... Forever Directing Director 58
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1982 Heart and Guts Directing Director 59
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1980 Anatomia do Espectador Directing Director N/A
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1978 SRTV - Nelson Pereira Dos Santos Saúda O Povo E Pede Passagem Directing Director N/A
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1977 Sea of Roses Directing Director 59
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1974 Getúlio Vargas Directing Director 58
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1971 Monteiro Lobato Directing Director N/A
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1971 Pantanal Directing Director N/A
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1969 Indústria Directing Director N/A
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1968 Lavra Dor Directing Director N/A
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Writing
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2014 A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum Writing Writer 58
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2003 Gregório de Mattos Writing Writer 59
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2000 Amélia Writing Writer 59
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1987 After Eight... Forever Writing Writer 58
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1982 Heart and Guts Writing Writer 59
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1980 Anatomia do Espectador Writing Writer N/A
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1977 Sea of Roses Writing Writer 59
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1974 Getúlio Vargas Writing Writer 58
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1969 Indústria Writing Writer N/A
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1968 Lavra Dor Writing Writer N/A
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Production
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2014 A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum Production Producer 58
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1977 Sea of Roses Production Producer 59
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1974 Getúlio Vargas Production Producer 58
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1968 Lavra Dor Production Producer N/A
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Sound
1968 Lavra Dor Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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Art
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