Adélia Sampaio
Production
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 fil
🎬 Movies (17)
Olhar dos anos 60
2024
Director
O Mundo de Dentro
2018
Director
AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu
2001
Writer
Scliar: A Persistência da Paisagem
1991
Director
Fugindo do Passado
1987
Director
Cursed Love
1984
Producer
Na poeira das ruas
1982
Director
... AGORA UM DEUS DANÇA EM MIM
1981
Director
Ele, Ela, Quem?
1980
Associate Producer
Adulto Não Brinca
1980
Director
Parceiros da Aventura
1979
Producer
Denúncia Vazia
1979
Director
O Seminarista
1977
Production Manager
O Ibraim do Subúrbio
1977
Production Assistant
A Cartomante
1975
Production Director
O Monstro de Santa Tereza
1975
Production Director
O Segredo da Rosa
1974
Production Director