Glauber Rocha
Glauber Rocha (1939–1981) was a Brazilian director, screenwriter, and theorist, the central figure of Cinema Novo and one of the most influential Latin American filmmakers of the twentieth century. He worked as a journalist and theatre critic in his native Bahia before turning to filmmaking and theorizing a politically engaged 'aesthetic of hunger' that fused the realities of Brazilian underdevelopment with a stylized engagement with myth, music, and revolutionary politics. His acclaimed films include Barravento, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth, Antônio das Mortes (which won the Best Director prize at Cannes), and The Age of the Earth.