In the Limelight: Walter Salles
In the Limelight: Walter Salles
- Date
- Feb 11th 2007
- With
- José Carlos Avellar, Peter Cowie, Walter Salles
Brazilian director Walter Salles won a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998 for CENTRAL DO BRASIL , a film also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Recent films by Walter Salles include the US-American production DARK WATER and THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES about the young Ché Guevara. At today's opening session, Walter Salles will confront you with a personal and subjective view on some aspects of 'privacy, films and politics', the main subject of this year's Berlinale Talent Campus.
In a conversation with Peter Cowie and José Carlos Avellar, he will reflect on the 'Home Affairs' of his own career, his stories which succeeded not only in Brazil but in cinemas around the globe.
José Carlos Avellar
Film critic with essays in anthologies and collective works, he has six books on Brazilian and Latin American Cinema to his name. He was cultural director of Embrafilme from 1985 to 1987, director president of Riofilme and distributor for Brazilian films from 1994 to 2000. He is also Berlinale's delegate for Brasil.
Peter Cowie
A film historian and former international publishing director of Variety magazine, Peter Cowie has written more than 30 books on major figures and eras of world cinema, including Bergman, Welles, Coppola and Kurosawa. He published and edited the annual International Film Guide for 40 years and has contributed numerous commentaries to Criterion’s DVD collection. He has been a consultant to Berlinale Talents since the programme’s inception in 2003.
Walter Salles
Brazilian writer, director and producer. His 1998 film CENTRAL STATION won the Golden Bear in Berlin, while his following films BEHIND THE SUN and the Che Guevara diary adaptation THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES won several awards at Cannes and Venice. His latest fiction films LINHA DE PASSE and the Jack Kerouac adaptation ON THE ROAD both premiered at Cannes, after which he returned to his roots as a documentary filmmaker.