Arnaldo Jabor

Arnaldo Jabor was born in Rio de Janeiro and became deeply involved in Brazil's revolutionary Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s, working as a sound engineer and documentarian. In 1973, he directed All Nudity Shall Be Punished (Toda Nudez Será Castigada), adapted from Nelson Rodrigues's play, which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival despite being initially censored by Brazil's military dictatorship.

Jabor followed with celebrated, provocative masterworks including Tudo Bem (1978), Eu Te Amo (1981) starring Sônia Braga, and Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar (1986), which won the Best Actress Award for Fernanda Torres at the Cannes Film Festival. In the 1990s, when Brazilian cinema faced economic paralysis, Jabor reinvented himself as one of the country's sharpest daily political columnists and TV Globo commentators on Jornal da Globo, delivering passionate, biting monologues on Brazilian identity, politics, and culture.