Eduardo Luis Santos Correia Guedes (21 April 1941 – 29 August 2000)
was a
Portuguese
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film-maker involved with the independent British film collective
Cinema Action.
Guedes was born in
Lisbon, the son of a judge, and initially studied
chemical engineering
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at the
University of Lisbon
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, but after refusing to take part in the Portuguese colonial wars, he left in 1961 to study film-making at the
London International Film School. After graduating in 1964, he worked as a tutor at the school.
In 1965 he went to Brazil and made three documentaries (one, ''Rio Araguaia'', was later networked by the
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and French television). Returning to London, he freelanced as a film editor from 1968 to 1971, working with theatre director
's 1970 film ''Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition''.