Márcio Gonçalves Bentes de Souza (March 4, 1946 – August 12, 2024) was a Brazilian journalist and writer, recognized for his focus on the Amazon basin.
Pursued by the military dictatorship, he interrupted his studies in 1969 and began his professional life in cinema, as a critic, scriptwriter and director.
He wrote several works inserted in the socio-cultural environment of the Amazon, such as Mad Maria, Plácido de Castro contra o Bolivian Syndicate, Zona Franca, meu amor, Silvino Santos: o cineasta do ciclo da borracha, among others.
[3] He also stood out as a filmmaker and essayist (A selva; A expressão amazonense do neolítico à sociedade de consumo).
More recently, it has been dedicated to a tetralogy about the years in which the former Província do Grão-Pará,[4] which throughout the colonial period was a State separate from the State of Brazil, went through the serious crisis of its annexation to Brazil And of revolts against the power of Rio de Janeiro and/or against social inequality, of which blacks and Native Brazilians were particularly affected.