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Carlos DeMenezes

August 2006

Carlos DeMenezesCarlos DeMenezes took ten years to make Trespassing, his first feature-length documentary, winner of the Best Documentary Feature award at the 2005 Boston International Film Festival and Best Documentary at the 8th Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indigenas held in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006. DeMenezes has worked in video production and editing for over twenty years, including six years as a television production and post-production coordinator at Paramount Studios. He studied film production at University of California Los Angeles Extension and trained at the Macunaima Theatre School in Sao Paulo, Brazil. DeMenezes was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and lives in Los Angeles, California.

"To reflect is to be alive. To rest is to be dead. To live is a quest for a better life for everyone. To dream is to see the child of tomorrow having a better life then we had."

Screened by NMAI

Image credits: Carlos DeMenezes - courtesy of the filmmaker

Screened by NMAI

Participant, 2006 Native Cinema Showcase

 

 

 


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