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
basically central identity
With Central Station, the story was basically about the recuperation of one's identity and also, an investigation into the country's identity.
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.
closer increase responsibility wonderful
So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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.
worked
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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.