Adélia Sampaio

  • Known for: Producer
  • Date of birth: 1970. January 1.
  • Place of birth: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Adélia Sampaio is a Brazilian filmmaker, the first black woman to direct a film in Brazil, the 1984 feature Amor Maldito. Sampaio was born in 1944 in Belo Horizonte; her mother was a domestic worker. Sampaio's interest in film was encouraged by her sister Eliana, after watching Sergei Eisenstein's...

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