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A Short History of Brazilian Film

After Embrafilme, the new government aided the film indirectly by implementing new incentive laws which caused the rebirth of the film industry. These laws produced positive results which not only saw an increased in the number of films being made, there was an increased in cinema goers, too more Brazilian theme films that were not influenced by outside cultures and also in the quality of films produced were on par with the ones produced in Hollywood and was also being recognized by foreign critics. The most highly acknowledge films of contemporary times are Central do Brasil (Central Station), and Cidade de Deus (City of God) (Sommers 1).
             It is the fusion of races, cultures, and languages which are depicted in Brazilian films that makes these films so vibrant and meaningful. By drawing its people's attention to their hardship and realities of their daily lives played out on screen makes this national cinema a force to be reckoned with. Therefore, my goal in this paper is to highlight the history of Brazilian film by identifying the different periods of Brazilian film and highlight how each period was affected by the cultural, political and social issues of the people at each particular time. .
             The beginning of film screening begun in 1880s in Brazil and this occurred within a few months of the Lumiere brother experiment in Paris. Although the very few decades of Brazilian films were not very striking, film productions continue and improve significantly over the years. The very first films were done by immigrants such as Alfonso Segreto, he was the one who first introduced film making equipment in 1895 and was one of the pioneers in establishing the film industry (Stam and Johnson 13) and along with his brother they made many documentaries. With industrialization and introduction of electricity in the capital also came an increased in the number of cinema houses where mostly foreign films were shown (Martin 266).


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