Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias 1918 2007 was a Brazilian screenwriter editor photographer director of photography actor producer and filmmaker Candeias is believed to have been born in 1918 but was only registered in the town of Cajobi in the state of São Paulo in 1922 He worked in a number of jobs from aeronautics sergent to truck driver A selftaught filmmaker he released his debut feature A Margem in 1967 a starting point for the Cinema Marginal movement also dubbed Cinema de Invenção which would forever change paradigms in the history of Brazilian cinema Longing for distribution company for it he turned to the Boca do Lixo a block in downton São Paulo then known as a stronghold to independant filmmakers A passionate advocate for the Boca he paid homages to it in both short and feature films His work is composed of numerous shorts and featurelength films mostly depiciting life of communities either in urban or rural Brazil dealing with life in poverty Among the genres Candeias has worked with are horror western exploitation and drama although his films are hard to categorize due to their experimental nature Although a few of his features met commercial success such as 1969s Meu Nome É Tonho Candeias films had a notoriously small audience during his lifetime Caçada Sangrenta 1974 and A Freira e a Tortura 1983 two of his features aimed at a more conventional public emerged from a deal with produceractor David Cardoso who had previously starred in A Herança 1971 Candeias take on Hamlet reimagined as taking place in rural Brazil Candeias picture Aopção ou As Rosas da Estrada 1981 won the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival His last feature O Vigilante 1992 won the Special Jury Award at the 25th Brasília Film Festival but was never distributed at the theatres