Biography

1960 On 12 June, his first daughter Paloma de Melo Silva Rocha is born.
He works as executive producer for 'A Grande Feira', a long-length motion picture directed by Roberto Pires and produced by Rex Schindler.
Luiz Paulino dos Santos starts the shooting of Barravento and Glauber Rocha is the executive producer. After a turbulent first period of shooting, Rocha assumes the direction of Barravento. He uses some of the material filmed by dos Santos but he rewrites the screenplay.
1961 Glauber and Helena get divorced. Glauber edits Barravento in Rio. "I went to Rio again and edited Barravento with Nelson Pereira dos Santos, amid the wild palms of the passion for Edla (Van Steen), Regina (Rosemburgo) and Rosa (Maria Pena)." Rocha had met Rosa at PUC (the Catholic University in Rio) during a conference he was giving about Luis Buñuel. .
1962 Barravento wins the Opera Prima Award at the Karlovy Vary International Cinema Festival, in Tchecoslovaquia. In the same year, the film is also presented at the Sestri Levanti Festival, in Italy.
Rocha produces the short-length motion picture 'Images of Land and People', directed by Orlando Senna.
1963 Editora Civilização Brasileira publishes Revisão Crítica do Cinema Brasileiro (Critical Review of the Brazilian Cinema), Rocha's first book.
On 16 June, the Italian newspaper L'Expresso publishes Alberto Moravia's well known review about Barravento. According to Moravia, it is "one of the most beautiful films we have seen lately... Particularly, what most impresses me in Rocha's film is the fact that magic is not represented as folklore, but as a temptation, a snare, a fascination and a desire for retrogression and annulment. This is a fact of consciousness and ,as such, a historical reality".
On 18 June, Rocha starts to film Black God White Devil, accomplished on 2 September.
In August, Barravento is selected for the London Cinema Festival and in September it is included in the list of the ten films selected for the New York Cinema Festival, which inaugurated the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts.
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