Alberto Graça

He was born in Montes Claros, Brazil. He is a director and producer with experience in producing full-length movies, documentaries and commercials. He made two feature films. The days of hunting (2000), shot in the Amazon and Brasilia, won three awards at the 4th Brazilian Film Festival of Miami. In addition to writer and consultant on various audiovisual projects, he was responsible for importing and distributing films in the 70s, as Dersu Uzala, Akira Kurosawa, and Promised Land, by Andrzej Wajda. He directed the short Moment (1964), Moment of Violence (1967) and Belo Horizonte (1971). He conceived and carried out the project Cinema Movement, which displays free movies national universities and public squares and between 2000 and 2005 showed 35 titles in 1599 communities in 535 municipalities, reaching over one million viewers nationwide. In 2002, he founded the ICEM – Institute on Culture Movement, an NGO for the distribution of cultural goods around the country. He was developing two feature film projects: Borders of Paradise and Between pain and nothing, with this footage in Brazil, Portugal and Spain.