Denying Brazil
MovieTitle | A Negação do Brasil |
User score | 8.2 |
Release date | Nov 20, 2000 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Joel Zito Araújo |
Production country | Brazil |
Run time | 92 min. |
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyses race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to their likely influence on Brazilian African-Americans' identity-forming processes.