The international recognition that Brazilian cinema has been gaining is the result of a long process of work and dedication by professionals over decades. This is the vision shared by Maria Fernanda Cândidofilm actress “The Secret Agent”during an interview with CNN Brazil.
The artist highlighted that the current success and prestige that national productions have received abroad are not the result of chance, but rather a collective and persistent effort. “What I realize is that this success that we are experiencing and having this recognition, it is the result of”, stated Maria Fernanda.
According to the actress, it took “many decades in which audiovisual professionals have been working and, in fact, also consolidating cinema, not only as our visual identity, but as an industry as well.” This simultaneous construction of a Brazilian cinematographic identity and a solid industrial structure allowed the country to reach its current level of recognition.
A mature and universal cinema
Maria Fernanda Cândido highlighted that current Brazilian cinema demonstrates maturity and succeeds. “The consequence of this decades-long work, by many people, now appears in a mature cinema that takes a cinema that goes beyond our borders”, he explained.
For the actress, the difference between Brazilian productions is precisely being able to balance local characteristics with a universal language: “It takes a cinema that has our complexity, that has our cinematic tradition, our culture and, yet, manages to be universal, able to talk to audiences all over the world.”
The artist made a point of recognizing the legacy left by professionals who paved the way for the current moment in national cinema. “I really like to think about the professionals who came before us, because they are people who fought hard so that we can be here today, so that Brazil can be experiencing this celebration that we are experiencing together”, concluded Maria Fernanda Cândido.
