27 minutes to fall in love with a man who turned scrap metal into samba royalty.
The origin and trajectory of the Samba School Nenê da Vila Matilde is told by its founder.
Direction
Cortez lets working-class voices speak without filter or pity.
Production
Raw 2001 digital footage becomes aesthetic virtue, not limitation.
Director
Carlos Cortez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nenê da Vila Matilde remains one of São Paulo's most politically radical samba schools, rooted in Black working-class organizing that Seu Nenê helped forge.
Carlos Cortez was part of the 'Marginal Cinema' movement — filmmakers who rejected Rio-centric glamour to document peripheral Brazil on its own terms.
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