Born December 12, 1953· Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Emerging from a politically turbulent family-son of former Pernambuco governor Miguel Arraes and raised partly in Algerian exile-he pursued anthropology at the University of Paris in 1972, joining Jean Rouch’s Ethnographic Film Committee and gaining experience as projectionist, archivist and editor. Entering Brazil’s television scene in 1981, he co-directed the novela Jogo da Vida for Rede Globo a…
