Zózimo Bulbul Trailers
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A Brazilian filmmaker, actor, producer and screenwriter, Jorge da Silva, better known by his stage name Zózimo Bulbul, is regarded as a household name of black Brazilian cinema. He was also the founder of Rio de Janeiro's Black Cinema Center ("Centro Afro Carioca de Cinema").
As an actor, he worked in over 30 features, and was directed by filmmakers such as Glauber Rocha (in "Terra em Transe"), Carlos Diegues ("Quilombo") and Antunes Filho ("Compasso de Espera"), becoming the first black man to play a main character in a Brazilian TV soap opera, in 1969's "Vidas em Conflito".
His debut as a filmmaker was 1974's black and white short "Alma no Olho". With his work focusing in raising awareness to Brazilian black culture, Bulbul remained an active filmmaker until his death in 2013. His most well known film, as a director, is 1988's "Abolição", a lengthy documentary that gives critical thoughts on Brazil's 1888's ending of slavery and in what changed for the country's Black people over the course of a century.
Most Popular Zózimo Bulbul Trailers
Total trailers found: 55
01 January 2002
A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro.
02 February 2006
The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle.
01 January 2006
During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo Bulbul gathered some of the most notorious Brazilian black directors to talk about their works, their lives and their perspectives on the future.
13 April 1967
A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the self-conscious antics of the French New Wave.
23 August 1972
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
08 December 1968
In the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of documentaries called "Brasil Verdade" ("True Brazil"), after the Military Coup d'État took place in Brazil, which happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society.
25 August 2010
The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities - with the promise of escape stereotypical representations.
16 April 1963
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
01 January 1974
The making of the samba school parades, with the construction of the great cars, the decorations being spread all over the city and the hand-crafted tailoring of the costumes by apt hands that stitch together colourful and glowing materials.
13 May 1969
Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.
17 December 1987
A documentary about the artist Aloísio Magalhães.
10 March 1970
After the proclamation of the Republic, a group of fanatics in the sertão dreamed of and fought for the restoration of the Monarchy.
05 March 1980
Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her.
01 January 1969
Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.
03 June 1984
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves.
01 January 1973
Inspired by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s book Soul on Ice and dedicated to John Coltrane, Soul in the Eye marks the beginning of Black Brazilian films.
20 November 1974
A drama in the amazonian country.
18 October 2017
The African deity that brought in Brazil Together with the blacks, Exu is known as the orixá of communication, the guard of the streets and the human behavior.
02 May 1967
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power.
10 June 1979
Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.
01 January 1967
The relationship of a woman with three men - her husband, her lover and a man who fell in love with s
22 January 1969
João Grilo is a backwoodsman who tries to get along at the expense of the powerful in the city, who pretend to be respectful of morals and good customs and hide their sins.
31 December 1981
Zózimo Bulbul’s film is dedicated to Zumbi dos Palmares and to all Maroons dead and alive. It poro
05 April 2005
A documentary about the celebration of the National Samba Day with the aim of preserving the memory of part of the history of samba, which was being forgotten by the press and the Brazilian people.
01 January 2005
Filmed in a mini DV, the film "República Tiradentes" is an affective poetry, based on the stories of gafieira dancers, actors, rascals, girls and all the bohemians who lived and live moments of joy and glory in downtown Rio de Janeiro.
26 May 1967
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema.
10 May 1973
A woman from a bourgeois family marries a loveless man. She remembers (or dreams?) a life of adventure and smuggling, hijacking ships at night.
01 January 1982
In São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother, practically raised alone by her butler and driver Pedro and the maid, Dalva.
01 January 1970
European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will change their plans.
04 March 1968
A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
25 May 1970
Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends transform a small apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", at first securing money and success, but.
26 April 1975
Baby is found by nuns, who raise her inside the convent. When she grows up, she moves to a fishing village and gives up religious life when she falls in love with a black fisherman, who practices a Afro-Brazilian religion called Umbanda.
20 November 1962
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
01 January 1965
Cowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that "he" is a girl dressed in man's clothes.
09 April 2012
The film, shot in Dakar, Senegal, has testimonials from intellectuals, politicians and religious, who present an overview of the 50 years of independence of the countries of West Africa and the interpretation of the sculpture created recently in Senegal, which it represents, precisely, the African renaissance.
01 November 2002
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
16 September 2005
In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.
01 January 1978
A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine warfare fanned by overseas slave traders.
14 December 1967
In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople.
16 April 1967
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave').
19 February 1988
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
01 January 2001
A documentary short on Rio de Janeiro's district known as "Little Africa", shot on location, in which children and elders talk about the place's history.
13 May 1988
In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in his country.
26 August 1974
Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.
01 January 1970
In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land.
01 February 2004
In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression.
14 November 2012
The film narrates the imaginary encounter between João Cândido, leader of Revolta da Chibata and a paper picker and writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, author of the book "Quarto de despejo", in Rio de Janeiro.
