Alberto Cavalcanti

[7] Cavalcanti was soon making his own films, the first being a 1926 experimental documentary, Rien que les heures (Nothing But Time), showing a day in the life of Paris and its citizens.

[2] The following year, Cavalcanti returned to England to work for the GPO Film Unit, headed by John Grierson.

[1] Cavalcanti spent seven years there, involved in many capacities, from production to sound engineer, working on many projects, most notably: Coal Face (1935), Night Mail (1936), Message to Geneva (1937), Four Barriers (1937), and Spare Time (1939).

[8] In Brazil, Cavalcanti became head of production for Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz, though the company eventually became insolvent.

[9] After being blacklisted in Brazil as a communist, he moved back to Europe,[7] spending much of the 1960s and 1970s working as an itinerant film maker in various countries, including East Germany, France and Israel.