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(2007) The other, Dordrecht, Springer.
New York Times article recounts a tale of two film makers. Fernando Meirelles (may-RELL-es) forty-seven years old, director of a "vérité-style' drama about crime among the street-children of Rio de Janeiro, nominated for an Oscar award for best foreign-film director. Kátia Lund, thirty-seven years old, a Brazilian who began filming in the Rio slums in 1996 for a Michael Jackson video and has since filmed a documentary about the favelas as well as other music videos in Brazil, was named co-director but is not included in the Oscar nomination. Meirelles is referred to as a prominent director and producer. His oeuvre consists of hundreds of commercials but he has served as co-director on his only two films. He is dismayed at the implication that Lund deserves more credit: "She didn't do all the jobs that a director has to do; she did only part of the jobs.' "You can't direct a film without talking to the director of photography, choosing the music, editing. This is co-directing, not directing.' "She asked me for co-director, and I agreed because she was helping me a lot.' Lund demurs. Not surprisingly, Lund provides a different account. She and Meirelles collaborated on opening an acting school in the Rio slums and they shared directing credits on a previous short film, a dry run for the Oscar-nominated film.
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Olkowski, D. (2007)., Beyond narcissism: women and civilization, in H. Fielding, G. Hiltmann, D. Olkowski & A. Reichold (eds.), The other, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 71-101.
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