Maria Rita Galvão
(1939-2017)
Introduction
Maria Rita Galvão was involved in the Cinemateca Brasileira from the mid-1970s. She soon became its Director, and then the President of the reconstituted Cinemateca in 1987. She was introduced to the FIAF community at the 1979 Congress in Lausanne. She was a member of the FIAF Executive Committee (1987-91) and FIAF Vice-President (1991-93). She was an influential figure among the archives of the Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Imágenes en Movimiento (CLAIM), a network which she helped create, and carried out important research on the history of Brazilian cinema and on the situation of film heritage in Latin America.
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Carlos Roberto de Souza, "Maria Rita Galvão (1939-2017)", Journal of Film Preservation, Issue 97, Oct 2017, p. 72-76
