Neville D'Almeida
Director
Biography
A Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, photographer and multimedia artist, involved with contemporary art, installations, art objects and performances, Neville Duarte Almeida was born in 1941 in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. Raised by a Methodist Christian family, he studied theater at the Scholastic Theatre of Minas Gerais and participated at the local Center of Film Studies, where he started to work as an filmmaker.
Some of his transgressive, avant-garde films were censored or banned by the Brazilian military dictatorship, after which he went on to directing films aimed to a more commercial approach. His 1978 film "Lady on the Bus", starring Sônia Braga, was a box-office champíon and still holds its place as the the third highest-grossing Brazilian film of all time.
Filmography
Moon Over Parador
as Family Member 1988
The Red Light Bandit
1968
Os Espetaculares
2020
The Angel Was Born
1969
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
as Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited) 1991
No Way, Spider
1970
BLABLABLÁ
as (as Neville Duarte D'Almeida) 1968
Hunger for Love
1968
The Brazilwood Man
as Crítico de teatro 1982
Garden of War
1969
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as Self / Interviewee 2003
Sermões
1989
Razor in the Flesh
as Man in Club (Cameo) 1997
Pitanga
as Self 2016
Mangúe-Bangúe
1971
A Miss e o Dinossauro
as Himself (archive footage) 2005
Areias Escaldantes
as Espião 1985