Luiz Paulino dos Santos

Luiz Paulino dos Santos 19322017 was a Brazilian screenwriter producer director of photography filmmaker and occasional actor Born in the state of Bahia Paulino dos Santos was already involved with local filmmaking by the late 1950s being the cinematographer for Glauber Rochas 1959 short O Pátio In 1961 he got signed up with Rex Schindlers production company Rex Filmes to write and direct a featurelength filmBarravento Shortly after shooting had started however he left the project and was replaced by Glauber Rocha who also rewrote parts of the script with dos Santos being credited as coscreenwriter In the same year he was also in Nelson Pereira dos Santos entourage to film Vidas Secas which was unsuccessful when production found out that a season of rain had made the films dry location burst with trees plants and flowers When Pereira dos Santos decided to use the trip to write a quick script and shoot a Brazilianstyle western that would be titled Mandacaru Vermelho Paulino dos Santos became one of the films improvised actors along with a group of technicians that included director Nelson Pereira himself From the 1960s on Paulino dos Santos developed a body of work of his own both as a screenwriter and as a director in a career that ended with his passing in 2017 He was nominated for Best Feature in 1976s Gramado Film Festival for Crueldade Mortal and his last film was Índios Zoró Antes Agora e Depois released in 2016