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Era O Hotel Cambridge
''The Cambridge Squatter'' ( Brazilian Portuguese: ''Era o Hotel Cambridge'') is a 2016 Brazilian film directed by Eliane Caffé. It tells a fictionalised version of the occupation of the Cambridge Hotel in innercity São Paulo. Filmed mainly in the building, actual squatters act alongside well-known Brazilian actors such as José Dumont and Suely Franco. Synopsis The film tracks the occupation of the Cambridge Hotel by low-paid workers and refugees. It is a large 15 storey building in the innercity of São Paulo. The squatters include people from the Congo, Haiti, Syria and Palestine as well as from Brazil. From the established actors, José Dumont plays Apolo, who in a film within the film is workshopping a documentary set in the building and Suely Franco is Gilda, an elderly circus performer. A charismatic housing activist is played by Carmen Silva (who is in real life a campaigner with Frente de Luta por Moradia (FLM, or the Front for Housing Struggle)). Filming mostly in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliane Caffé
Eliane Caffé (born 1961) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Born in São Paulo, Caffé got a Psychology degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 1985 and a master's degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1992. Caffé directed some short films in the beginning of her career. Her first feature film, ''Kenoma'', from 1997, was exhibited at the 55th Venice Film Festival, and won the Soleil d'or in the 20th Biarritz Film Festival, among other awards. Her second feature was ''Narradores de Javé'', from 2003 . In 2016, she released '' Era o Hotel Cambridge'', a docufiction about a squatted hotel in downtown São Paulo. Filmography * 1987 - ''O nariz'' (short film) * 1990 - ''Arabesco'' (short film) * 1995 - ''Caligrama'' (short film) * 1998 - ''Kenoma'' (Feature film) * 2003 - ''Narradores de Javé'' (Feature film) * 2008 - ''O Mago dos Viadutos'' (short film) * 2009 - ''O Sol do Meio Dia'' (Feature film) * 2009 - ''O Louco dos Viadutos'' (miniseries for TV Cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |