Co-Producers: TV Cultura TVS – Rede Sesc Senac of Television
Produced by Synapse, Museu da Pessoa and Superfilmes
World Sales by Synapse
Through six distinct hair strands this documentary tells the stories of foreign immigrants that moved to Sao Paulo during the 20th century. They’ve all come from different countries and distinct backgrounds. Their hair types may be very diverse: wavy like the Portuguese cab driver Guimbra, straight and black like the Bolivian dressmaker Lucy, thin like the Japanese masseuse Yamaguche, scarce like Spanish barber Fombelida, or even full like the Syrian housewife Fatimah, and unruly like the Italian shoe man Consolato. However, underneath it all, it’s not that big of a difference.
José Roberto Torero directed six short films, two of them as a student from ECA-USP and four of them through Superfilmes: Memento Mori, Love! (best movie at Havana festival, Vila do COnde, Palm Springs, Santiago do Chile, Toronto, Gramado and Brasília), The Soul of Business (best movie in four festivals, including Drama, in Greek), and The Cake - Episode from the Movie "Happiness Is..." (special jury award from Hamburgo Festival).
He also made a medium length movie The World of a Barber Shop, for TV Cultura, and the feature film Manual for Love Stories.
He also scripted the short film A Soccer Tale, an Academy Award Finalist, and seven feature films, among them Posthumous Memoirs, Little Book of Love, Pelé Forever and The Story of Me.
He published 30 books (among them O Chalaça, Jabuti's Romance Award) and wrote a football column in Folha de S.Paulo from 1998 to 2012.
In television, for 8 years he wrote the Retrato Falado program, exhibited on Fantástico, beyond FDP series, exhibited on HBO since april 2012.
Filmography as director:
Manual for love stories (2004, 35mm, 84')
Memento Mori (2002, 35mm, 12')
The world of a barber shop (2002, video, 55')
The cake - Episode from the movie "Happiness is..." (1995, 35mm, 70')
Love! (1994, 35 mm, 14')
Writer and Director
José Roberto Torero
Argument
Julio Worcman, José Santos Matos and Karen Worcman
Executive Producer
Director of Photography
Adrian Cooper
Editor
Vania Debs
Music by
Mario Manga
Narration
Paulo José and Paulo César Pereio
Co-production
TV Cultura, STV – Rede Sesc Senac de Televisão
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