Walter Salles
Walter Salles
Walter Moreira Salles, Jr.is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth12 April 1956
CountryBrazil
persons
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
country diplomat life
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
believer
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
brazil influenced
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
vital
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
knew latin sacred
We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
nine
I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
films incentives latin vice
Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
improvise project
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
country whose
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.