Adélia Sampaio
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Production
Gender
Female
Birthday
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Place of Birth
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Adélia Sampaio
Biography
Adélia Sampaio is a Brazilian filmmaker, the first black woman to direct a film in Brazil, the 1984 feature Amor Maldito. Sampaio was born in 1944 in Belo Horizonte; her mother was a domestic worker. Sampaio's interest in film was encouraged by her sister Eliana, after watching Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (Eliana later became her producer). In 1969 went to work as a telephone operator at Difilm, a Brazilian distributor linked to Cinema Novo. Sampaio began to organize the company's film club, which projected films in 16mm. She also started to work in the production of films, in various functions, such as continuist, makeup artist, ...
Production
1980
as Associate Producer
1975
as Production Director
1984
as Director
1984
as Screenstory
1984
as Producer
1979
as Producer
1974
as Production Director
1974
as Screenplay
1975
as Production Director
1987
as Director
1987
as Producer
1981
as Director
1981
as Screenplay
1982
as Director
1982
as Screenplay
1977
as Production Manager
2001
as Director
2001
as Writer
2001
as Art Direction
1980
as Production Director
1979
as Director
2018
as Director
2018
as Screenplay
1979
as Writer
1980
as Director
1980
as Writer
1991
as Director
1977
as Production Assistant
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