Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Director, known for Barren Lives, Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman

Nelson Pereira dos Santos ComRB • OMC (São Paulo, October 22, 1928 — Rio de Janeiro, April 21, 2018) was a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. Having been one of the founders of the Cinema Novo movement, his production spans a period of 60 years in the history of Brazil. Considered one of the most…