Adélia Sampaio

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Female

Place of Birth Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Adélia Sampaio

Biography

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 Ivan the Terrible (Eliana later became her producer). In 1969 went to work as a telephone operator at Difilm, a Brazilian distributor linked to Cinema Novo. Sampaio began to organize the company's film club, which projected films in 16mm. She also started to work in the production of films, in various functions, such as continuist, makeup artist, camera operator, editor and producer. Her debut as a director was in 1979, with the short film Denúncia Vazia. In 1984 she released her first feature, Amor Maldito, based on the real-life case of a trial of a lesbian woman accused of killing her partner, of which she was also a screenwriter (with José Louzeiro) and producer. Thus, she became the first black woman to direct a feature film in Brazil. In 1987 she directed the documentary Fugindo do Passado: Um Drink para Tetéia e História Banal, about the Brazilian military dictatorship. In 2018 she directed O mundo de dentro, shown at the São Paulo International Short Film Festival.

Known For

Producer

1987
Fugindo do Passado

as Producer

1984
Amor Maldito

as Producer

1980
Ele, Ela, Quem?

as Associate Producer

1980
Ele, Ela, Quem?

as Production Director

1979
1977
O Seminarista

as Production Manager

1975
A Cartomante

as Production Director

1975
O Monstro de Santa Tereza

as Production Director

1974
O Segredo da Rosa

as Production Director

Director

2018
O Mundo de Dentro

as Director

1987
Fugindo do Passado

as Director

1984
Amor Maldito

as Director

1982
Na poeira das ruas

as Director

1980
Adulto Não Brinca

as Director

1979
Denúncia Vazia

as Director

Writer

2018
O Mundo de Dentro

as Screenplay

1984
Amor Maldito

as Screenstory

1982
Na poeira das ruas

as Screenplay

1980
1979
Denúncia Vazia

as Writer

1974
O Segredo da Rosa

as Screenplay

Art

2001