Acting
Helena Ignez
Helena Ignez (Salvador, May 23, 1939) is a Brazilian actress and filmmaker. Helena was born in Salvador, Bahia and was attending her second year of law school when she fell in love with theater and decided to study the Dramatic Arts at the Federal University of Bahia. At the time, the Bahian theater scene was breaking with traditional Brazilian theater and experiencing strong influence from the young vanguard. She first appeared on the screen in Glauber Rocha's short film "Pátio". Helena acted in a few films associated with the Cinema Novo movement, such as "A Grande Feira" (1961), "Assalto ao Trem Pagador" (1962), and "O Padre e a Moça" (1966) before playing Janete Jane in O Bandido da Luz Vermelha by Rogério Sganzerla. After this film, she would perform in some most significant films in the Cinema Marginal movement, which directly opposed the critically acclaimed Cinema Novo -- the most remarkable being her role as Ângela Carne e "Osso in A Mulher de Todos" (1969). She also was a financial partner of Rogério Sganzerla and fellow Cinema Marginal filmmaker Júlio Bressane in the short-lived, although prolific, Belair production company. Between 1968 and 1970, Sganzerla and Ignez made almost a dozen films together and were also married and had two children -- one of which would become actress Djin Sganzerla. As a filmmaker, Ignez has directed 7 films, the most notable being "Luz das Trevas" (2010), a sequel to Sganzerla's debut feature "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha" (1968).
Filmography
Eclipse
Film · 2026
A Film to Remind Us of Utopia
Film · 2026
Helena! Cinema!
Film · 2026
Cartas Para Rian
Film · 2026
Pioneiras do Cinema
Film · 2026
As Florestas da Noite
Film · 2026
América do Sol
Film · 2026
Nem Tudo é Paz e Amor
Film · 2026
Garden of Silences
Film · 2026
Fernando Coni Campos: Cada um Vive como Sonha
Film · 2026
Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans
Film · 2025
Trópico de Leão
Film · 2025
Deuses da Peste
Film · 2025
Gravidade
Film · 2025
Message from Sergipe
Film · 2025
Nosferatu
Film · 2025
Primavera nos Dentes – A História do Secos & Molhados
Series · 2025
A Última Vanguarda
Film · 2024
If I'm Here It Is by Mystery
Film · 2024
Joy Is the Acid Test
Film · 2023
O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue
Film · 2023
Helena de Guaratiba
Film · 2023
Nelson Carneiro: Knight of Democracy
Film · 2023
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Film · 2023
The Mother
Film · 2022
The Welles Raft
Film · 2022
The Good Cinema
Film · 2021
Subterrânea
Film · 2021
Um Documentário Brasileiro
Film · 2021
Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
Film · 2021
Rio de Topless
Film · 2020
Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
Film · 2020
Natureza Morta
Film · 2020
Esse fim de semana vou me dedicar as paredes
Film · 2020
Fogo Baixo, Alto Astral
Film · 2020
Race Antenna
Film · 2020
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Film · 2020
Mulher Oceano
Film · 2020
The Lady Who Died in the Trailer
Film · 2020
Benjamim Zambraia e o Autopanóptico
Film · 2020
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Film · 2019
A Mulher da Luz Própria
Film · 2019
Flesh
Film · 2019
Extracts
Film · 2019
Bring me the Head of Carmen M.
Film · 2019
In Memoriam: O Roteiro do Gravador
Film · 2019
Fakir
Film · 2019
Notícias do Fim do Mundo
Film · 2019
Antes do Fim
Film · 2018
My Calendar Girl
Film · 2018
O Desmonte do Monte
Film · 2018
Febre
Film · 2017
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Film · 2017
Venus – Filly the Lesbian Little Fairy
Film · 2017
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Film · 2017
Inauditoo
Film · 2017
Ralé: The Lower Depths
Film · 2016
O Cinema Foi à Feira
Film · 2016
O País do Cinema
Series · 2016
The End of an Age
Film · 2014
Paixão e Virtude
Film · 2014
Love Film Festival
Film · 2014
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
Film · 2014
Estátua!
Film · 2014
Ossos
Film · 2014
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
Film · 2013
Terno
Film · 2013
Poder dos Afetos
Film · 2013
Desculpa, Dona Madama
Film · 2013
Ugly, Me?
Film · 2013
A Balada do Provisório
Film · 2012
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
Film · 2012
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Film · 2012
Avacalha e se Esculhamba
Film · 2010
Hotel Atlântico
Film · 2009
A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
Film · 2009
Belair
Film · 2009
Embodiment of Evil
Film · 2008
A Bela P...
Film · 2008
Meu Mundo em Perigo
Film · 2007
Helena Zero
Film · 2006
Luz-Lux-Lúcia
Film · 2005
A Miss e o Dinossauro
Film · 2005
Retrato da Terra
Film · 2004
The Sign of Chaos
Film · 2003
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Film · 2003
Abry
Film · 2003
Reinvenção da Rua
Film · 2003
B2
Film · 2001
São Jerônimo
Film · 1999
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Film · 1997
Flying Geraldo
Film · 1994
Oswaldianas
Film · 1992
Scent of Gardenias
Film · 1992
Perigo Negro
Film · 1992
Tereza Batista
Series · 1992
Anônimo e incomum
Film · 1990
It's Not All True
Film · 1986
Spray Jet
Film · 1986
Mulheres de Cinema
Film · 1978
A Man and His Cage
Film · 1974
Um Intruso no Paraíso
Film · 1973
Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
Film · 1971
The Rowdy Family
Film · 1970
Copacabana Mon Amour
Film · 1970
No Way, Spider
Film · 1970
Baron Olavo, The Horrible
Film · 1970
Watch Out, Madame
Film · 1970
Carnaval na Lama
Film · 1970
The Monsters of Babaloo
Film · 1970
The Woman of Everyone
Film · 1969
Era Preciso Voltar
Series · 1969
The Red Light Bandit
Film · 1968
The Outsiders
Film · 1968
Face to Face
Film · 1967
O Engano
Film · 1967
The Priest and the Girl
Film · 1966
Grito da Terra
Film · 1964
Assault on the Pay Train
Film · 1962
A Grande Feira
Film · 1961
O Pátio
Film · 1959
Flesh
Film
Lost Media
Film