Ana Carolina (director) facts for kids

Ana Carolina (born 27 September 1945) is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She directed seven films between 1969 and 2003. In 1978, she was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1982 film Heart and Guts was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.

Early career and documentary work

Ana Carolina Teixeira Soares attended school with the intention of becoming a doctor, but instead changed direction and became a filmmaker. She graduated in 1964 from University of São Paulo Med School. Several years later she went to a School of Physiotherapy, taking special interest in university politics. She also spent a few of her early years in a Renaissance band called "Musikantiga".

She was highly focused in her early years as a filmmaker, as she made 11 documentaries in her first eight years in the business (her first being in 1967, last in 1974).

These early documentaries had a heavy focus on workers. Ana Carolina also had interest in the world of labour, as she created several documentaries that revolved around labourers and unions (Lavra-dor 1968, Pantanal 1971). At the same time, some of these documentaries focused more on artistic practices (Três Desenhos 1970, Monteiro Lobato 1970).

Feature films

She is better known for her feature films, however. Her earliest works includes a trilogy that consists of films that all speak to social and political conditions in Brazil, her place of birth:

Mar de Rosas (1977), translated as Everything is Fine, Das Tripas Caração (1982), translated as With the Heart in the Hands, Sonho de Valsa(1986), translated as Dream Waltz.

They were supported by Embrafilme.

Impact

Carolina had a highly influential role as a filmmaker in one of the most restrictive times in Brazil, the Military Dictatorship (1964–1985). Her battle against censorship trail-blazed a better path to social and political commentary in film. She fought against the censorship of films, but also the censorship of ideas.

Filmography

• Indústria (1969)
• Getúlio Vargas (1974)
• Mar de Rosas (1977)
• Das Tripas Coração (1982)
• Sonho de Valsa (1987)
• Amélia (2001)
• Gregório de Mattos (2003)
• A Primeira Missa (2014)

Awards and nominations

• Amélia (2001) was nominated for Best Actress at the Grande Premio do Cinema Brasileiro.
• Amélia (2001) was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Grande Premio do Cinema Brasileiro.
• Amélia (2001) was nominated for Best Art Direction at the Grande Premio do Cinema Brasileiro.
• Jury member at 28th International Berlin Film Festival