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Walter Salles, Jr.
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Director, Producer, Co-producer, Screenwriter, Associate Producer, Editor Born: 1956 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Biography:Director/writer Walter Salles Jr. spearheaded the return of Brazilian cinema to international prominence in the latter half of the 1990s, particularly with his esteemed hit "Central Station" (1998). Born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a well-heeled banker, Salles was raised in France and the United States before Brazil became his permanent home during his teens. Too young to have been part of Brazil's Cinema Novo in the 1960s and 1970s, Salles entered the Brazilian film industry as an award-winning documentary filmmaker during the industry's 1980s/early-'90s decline. After he moved to fiction with the thriller "Exposure" (1991), Salles' feature career was stalled by Brazil's disastrous economic freeze in the first half of the 1990s. Though he remained active by making documentaries for European television, Salles opted to stay in Brazil and made one of the first key films in the industry's resurgence,... Full Biography
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