Biography

1964	On 11 May, Black God White Devil competes in the Cannes Festival, but the winner is Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, a French musical comedy. Nevertheless, it wins the Mexican Reviewers' Award at the Acapulco International Festival, the Grand Award at the Free Cinema Festival, in Italy, and the Golden Naiade at the Porreta Terme International Festival, also in Italy. Maurício do Valle, the actor who plays Antonio da Mortes, wins the Saci Trophy for Best Supporting Actor, given by the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo. On 19 June, the premiere in Rio de Janeiro of the film Black God White Devil takes place. On 26 June, due to the success of this film, Barravento is finally launched in Rio.
1965	In January, on a flight from Los Angeles to Milan, Glauber writes the manifesto The Aesthetics of Hunger, which he would present to the public at the seminar about the Cinema Novo, during the retrospective organized for the Latin-American Cinema Conference, in Geneva. The theme that was purposed was Cinema Novo and World Cinema. "Some contingencies forced the modification: European paternalism in relation to the Third World was the main reason for the change." The script of Black God Whit Devil is published by Editora Civilização Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro. Glauber Rocha participates in the creation of Mapa Films toghether with Zelito Viana, Walter Lima Junior, Paulo César Saraceni e Raymundo Wanderley Reis. He co-produces Menino de Engenho, a long-length motion picture directed by Walter Lima Junior and shoots the short-length Amazonas Amazonas, his first coloured film. In November, Rocha is arrested along with others intellectuals who were doing a demonstration against the military government in front of Hotel Gloria, Rio de Janeiro, where an O.A.S. conference is taking place. Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Mário Carneiro, Flávio Rangel, Antonio Callado, Carlos Heitor Cony, Márcio Moreira Alves and the American Consul in Rio are arrested too. Glauber called the group the Octet of Gloria. From Europe, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Abel Gance and Joris Ivens, among others, send a telegram to the President of Brazil, marshal Castelo Branco, protesting against the arrest, which they consider a flagrant offense to the freedom of speech in a traditionally democratic country. .
1966	Black God White Devil wins the Latin-American Grand Award at the International Festival of Mar del Plata. The script of the film is published in the Italian collection Cineforum. Rocha co-produces A Grande Cidade, a long-length motion picture by Carlos Diegues, and directs the short-length Maranhão 66. He prepares the production of Earth Entranced, choosing some actors from the theatre company Opinião. According to Rocha, "Earth Entranced is a film about what is grotesque, awful and poor in Latin America. It is not a film with positive characters, it is not a film with perfect heroes, but one that deals with the conflict, the misery, the corruption in the underdevelopment. Mental and cultural rottenness and decadence that are present both in the right and the left wings."
1967	In April, Earth Entranced is prohibited in all Brazilian territory for being considered irreverent before the Church and subversive. On 3 May, the film is descharged under one condition: the priest, interpreted by Jofre Soares, was to be given a name. The priest, then, was called Father Gil, and his name was included in the credits at the end of the film. Earth Entranced wins the Luis Buñuel Award, given by the Spanish reviewers, and the FIPRESCI Award (International Federation of the Cinematographic Press). At the International Film Festival of Locarno, in Switzerland, it wins the First Award and the Reviewers' Award. In Havana, it is considered the best picture of the year by the Cuban reviewers. In Rio, it wins the Best Picture Award at the MIS (Museum of Image and Sound). And at the Cinema Festival of Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, it wins four awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Modesto de Souza - the senator), and a special one to Luiz Carlos Barreto, for the direction of photography and the production of the film. In the same year, Rocha is one of the script writers of Garota de Ipanema by Leon Hirszman.

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