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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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Family
"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
Fiction
"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."
Support
"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."
Collaboration
"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."
Nation
"That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think."
Fiction
"The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along."
Development
"My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture."
Life
"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
Film
"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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