Acting
Orlando Brito
Born 1950-02-08 · Janaúba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Orlando Péricles Brito de Oliveira (Janaúba, February 8, 1950 — Taguatinga, March 11, 2022) was a Brazilian photojournalist. In his almost sixty-year career, he portrayed scenes from national politics. It also followed social and indigenous issues and sporting events, covering events in more than sixty countries.
Acting credits
5.0In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020
NRThe fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role of the photographer and the pain of registering someone’s grief.
Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo
2019