A Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, photographer and multimedia artist, involved with contemporary art, installations, art objects and performances, Neville Duarte Almeida was born in 1941 in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. Raised by a Methodist Christian family, he studied theater at the Scholastic Theatre of Minas Gerais and participated at the local Center of Film Studies, where he started to work as an filmmaker.
Some of his transgressive, avant-garde films were censored or banned by the Brazilian military dictatorship, after which he went on to directing films aimed to a more commercial approach. His 1978 film "Lady on the Bus", starring Sônia Braga, was a box-office champíon and still holds its place as the the third highest-grossing Brazilian film of all time.
KNOWN FOR
O País do Cinema
2017
Lady on the Bus
1978
Moon Over Parador
1988
The Red Light Bandit
1968
Drops de Anis
2026
The Seven Kittens
1980
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
1991
Noite
1985
Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
2023
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2003
Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
2019
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020
FILMOGRAPHY
All
Movies
TV
Acting
42
Directing
33
Writing
21
Producing
7
Camera
1
Editing
1
Sound
1
Art
2