Zózimo Bulbul

Known for ActingBorn 1937-09-21Died 2013-01-24Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A Brazilian filmmaker, actor, producer and screenwriter, Jorge da Silva, better known by his stage name Zózimo Bulbul, is regarded as a household name of black Brazilian cinema. He was also the founder of Rio de Janeiro's Black Cinema Center ("Centro Afro Carioca de Cinema"). As an actor, he worked in over 30 features, and was directed by filmmakers such as Glauber Rocha (in "Terra em Transe"), Carlos Diegues ("Quilombo") and Antunes Filho ("Compasso de Espera"), becoming the first black man to play a main character in a Brazilian TV soap opera, in 1969's "Vidas em Conflito". His debut as a filmmaker was 1974's black and white short "Alma no Olho". With his work focusing in raising awareness to Brazilian black culture, Bulbul remained an active filmmaker until his death in 2013. His most well known film, as a director, is 1988's "Abolição", a lengthy documentary that gives critical thoughts on Brazil's 1888's ending of slavery and in what changed for the country's Black people over the course of a century.Read more

Movies & web series

Black Goddess

Ana, a Libertina

Brutos Inocentes

Hung Up

Vidas em Conflito

Chico Anysio Show

Parceiros da Aventura

Pureza Proibida

The Godless Bandit

True Brazil

O Engano

Compasso de Espera

Soul in the Eye

Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento

Paper and Sea

Five Times Favela

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

Pequena África

Natal da Portela

Entranced Earth

Memória Viva

Garden of War

Quilombo

Abolition

Our Lady of Compassion

Daughters of the Wind

Sagarana: O Duelo

Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring

Ganga Zumba

The Forest

The Suns of Easter Island

República da Traição

The Girl from Ipanema

In Evil Hour

El Justicero

The Naked Man

The Palace of Angels

The War of Pelados

The Girl and the Rapist

5x Favela, Now by Ourselves

Grande Sertão

Giselle

Renascimento Africano

Abdias Nascimento

Referências

Zona Carioca do Porto

República Tiradentes

Samba no Trem