About Walter Salles: Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.
The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
