João Batista de Andrade

São Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss.

Produced for the National Institute of Cinema, a panorama about the life of the painter.

A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle involved. (imdb)

In Brasilia, a storyteller every day entertains the customers of a bar with his narratives. But one of them, he is reluctant to take until the end: the murder of two girls that had the only witness a blind guy, who fumbled the face of one of the killers.

A panel of Brazilian political scenery in 1968, alternating images of the main events and politicians and specialists' statements about freedom in the Press.

The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of Brazilian military dictatorship. (imdb)

TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighborhood. (imdb)

With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup. (imdb)

Director João Batista de Andrade was filming a documentary about migrants coming from Northeast Brazil to São Paulo in search of a better living. His intention was to give voice to these underprivileged and homeless people. While preparing to interview a man who lived under a bridge, a passer-by interfered, starting an argument about the role of people from other states in the development of São Paulo and the rural problem in the Northeast. (lukejoplin@infolink.com.br)

Part feature film/part documentary, and using of real actors along common people who were part of the real facts, the project presents the story of one of the most notorious São Paulo criminals of the late 1970's: Wilsinho Galiléia. It tells about his crimes, his methods, the police investigation and then Wilsinho's killing by the authorities.