A Negacao Do Brasil (Denying Brazil)
2000, NR, 92 min.
Directed by Joel Zito Araújo, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

This documentary film (in Portuguese with English subtitles) provides a study of the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in the Brazilian television “soaps” will be introduced by the director, who is a visiting professor in the Dept. of Radio-TV-Film. For more on Brazil Week see www.utexas.edu/cola/llilas.

This article appears in March 15 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.