Helena Solberg

Helena Solberg (lahir 17 Juni 1938, di Rio de Janeiro) adalah seorang pembuat dokumenter kelahiran Brasil yang, sejak tahun 1971, berkarier di Amerika Serikat. Dia diakui sebagai satu-satunya wanita yang berpartisipasi dalam gerakan "Cinema Novo" di Brasil. Pada tahun 1983, Solberg menerima Penghargaan Emmy untuk From the Ashes: Nikaragua Today, film dokumenter tentang masyarakat baru yang lahir dari kekacauan politik di Amerika Tengah dan peran AS dalam menentukan masa depannya. Helena Solberg lahir di Rio de Janeiro, putri dari ayah Norwegia dan ibu Brasil, tinggal lama di New York City, dan memantapkan dirinya sebagai produser dan sutradara film dokumenter di Brasil dan Amerika Serikat. Dia memulai karirnya dari kontak dengan nama-nama besar film baru, seperti Carlos Diegues dan Arnaldo Jabor, saat dia tinggal bersama mereka selama studi di Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Solberg mulai bekerja pada masa remaja sebagai reporter di surat kabar Metropolitano dan dengan menguasai bahasa Inggris dan Prancis mewawancarai nama-nama penting seperti penulis Clarice Lispector dan juga filsuf Simone de Beauvoir dan Jean Paul Sartre. Debutnya sebagai pembuat film terjadi pada tahun 1966 dengan film pendek A Entrevista. Pada tahun 1969 menyutradarai Meio-dia, sebuah fiksi tentang pemberontakan siswa di kelas, dengan konteks masa kediktatoran militer di Brazil, musik Caetano Veloso, É proibido proibir (Dilarang melarang). Pada tahun 70-an, ia tinggal di Amerika Serikat selama sekitar 30 tahun, di mana ia mengarahkan beberapa produksi, di antaranya: From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today (1982), yang memenangkan News & Documentary Emmy Award. Sejak tahun 80-an, ia mulai memproduksi serangkaian film dokumenter untuk saluran TV internasional seperti HBO, PBS, Channel 4, Radio dan Televisi Portugal, National Geographic Channel, dan lain-lain. Pada tahun 1995, ia memproduseri, menulis dan menyutradarai film fitur pertamanya, Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business, campuran dokumenter dan rekreasi fiksi dari kehidupan penyanyi Carmen Miranda. Dengan Pisang adalah urusanku, dia memenangkan penghargaan Film Terbaik dari penonton, kritikus dan juri di Festival de Brasilia. Film ini juga dianugerahi Golden Hugo untuk film dokumenter Terbaik di Festival Film Internasional Chicago dan terpilih di antara 10 film terbaik dalam kategorinya oleh kritikus Andrew Sarris.

Helena Solberg (born June 17, 1938, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-born documentarist who, since 1971, has made her career in the United States. She is recognized as the only woman to participate in "Cinema Novo" movement in Brazil. In 1983, Solberg received an Emmy Award for From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today, documentary on a new society that born of political turmoil in Central America and the role that the U.S. plays in determining its future. Helena Solberg was born in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of a Norwegian father and Brazilian mother, lived for a long time in New York City, and established herself as a producer and director of documentaries in Brazil and the United States. She began her career from contact with big names of the new movies, as Carlos Diegues and Arnaldo Jabor, a time when she lived with them during the studies at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Solberg began in adolescence working as a reporter at the Metropolitano newspaper and by mastering English and French interviewed important names like the writer Clarice Lispector and also the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre. Her debut as a filmmaker occurred in 1966 with the short film A Entrevista. In 1969 directed Meio-dia, a fiction about the revolt of students in the classroom, with the context the period of military dictatorship in Brazil, Caetano Veloso's music, É proibido proibir (It is forbidden to forbid). In the 70s, she took up residence in the United States for about 30 years, where she directed several productions, among them: From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today (1982), which won a News & Documentary Emmy Award. From the 80s, began to produce a series of documentaries for international TV channels such as HBO, PBS, Channel 4, Radio and Television of Portugal, National Geographic Channel, among others. In 1995, she produced, wrote and directed her first feature film, Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business, a mixture of documentary and fictional recreation from the singer Carmen Miranda's life. With Bananas is my business she won the Best Films award of the audience, the critic and the jury at the Festival de Brasilia. The film also was awarded with the Golden Hugo for Best documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival and was selected among the 10 best in its category by the critic Andrew Sarris.