Babenco, like Italian director Vittorio De Sica before him, sought to show a realism in cinema, and would often use nonactors. For example, Babenco’s 1981 movie Pixote was shot in the Brazilian ...

Four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe is set to team up once more with Brazil's Bárbara Paz in near-future drama, "Cuddle," Paz's fiction feature debut. Dafoe was an associate producer of the ...

In late director Hector Babenco’s last film, “My Hindu Friend,” the doctor attending to Willem Dafoe’s character, a cancer-stricken Babenco alter-ego, observes: “Those who have a dream ...

Bárbara Paz is a Brazilian non-binary actress , director and producer. Biography Bárbara Raquel Paz was born in Campo Bom , in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre. The youngest of four ...

Four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe is set to team up once more with Brazil’s Bárbara Paz in near-future drama, “Cuddle,” Paz’s fiction feature debut. Dafoe was an associate producer of ...

“Cinema was his oxygen; the films were Hector, Hector was his films,” says filmmaker-actress Barbara Paz, who marks her directorial feature debut with “Babenco: Tell Me When I Die,” the ...

Four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe is set to team up once more with Brazil’s Bárbara Paz in near-future drama, “Cuddle,” Paz’s fiction feature debut. Dafoe was an associate producer of ...