Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014) enjoyed an extraordinary career in the Brazilian film industry, mainly as a documentarist. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a contemporary of many Cinema Novo filmmakers, friend and colleague of several of them, but he only became a director at the beginning of the 1980’s, almost at the age of fifty, in a context entirely different to that of Brazil in the 1960’s. He also studied law, theatre and journalism, in which he worked for many years. He is the author...
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Date of Birth: May 11, 1933
Date of Death: Feb 2, 2014