A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.
Editing
Bronz sculpts decades of home footage into something almost fictional in its intimacy.
Sound
Her voice — raw, unpolished, devastating in private recordings.
Director
Pedro Bronz
Beth Carvalho
Self
Mário Lago
Self (archive footage)
Moacyr Luz
Self (archive footage)
Walter Alfaiate
Self (archive footage)
Alfredinho
Self (archive footage)
Clementina de Jesus
Self (archive footage)
Nelson Sargento
Self (archive footage)
Paulo Cesar Pinheiro
Self (archive footage)
Roberto Ribeiro
Self (archive footage)
Martinho da Vila
Self (archive footage)
Délcio Carvalho
Self (archive footage)
Monarco
Self (archive footage)
Nelson Cavaquinho
Self (archive footage)
Guilherme de Brito
Self (archive footage)
Zeca Pagodinho
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Beth started recording herself after a 1999 burglary convinced her that institutions wouldn't protect samba history.
Her 1979 album 'De Pé No Chão' was effectively a manifesto claiming pagode for working-class women — the documentary finally gives that context its due.
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