{{short description|Brazilian film director}} {{Expand Portuguese|date=May 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Lima Barreto | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1906|6|23}} | birth_place = São Paulo, Brazil | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1982|11|23|1906|6|23}} | death_place = São Paulo, Brazil | occupation = {{hlist|Film director|screenwriter}} | years_active = 1940–1982 }}
'''Lima Barreto''' (23 June 1906 – 23 November 1982) was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFcRMkd-CvIC&pg=PA63&dq=Lima+Barreto+film+director#q=Lima+Barreto+film+director|title=The Cinema of Latin America|first1=Alberto|last1=Elena|first2=Marina Díaz|last2=López|date=24 March 2004|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231501941|accessdate=6 March 2019|via=Google Books}}</ref> He directed six films between 1940 and 1961. His film ''O Cangaceiro'' was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, where it was "much liked for its original and truly national flavour."<ref>{{cite journal | journal=Sight & Sound | publisher=British Film Institute | pages=18–20 | title=Cannes 1953 | year=1953 | issue=1 | volume=23 | author=Anderson, Lindsay}}</ref>
==Filmography== * ''Fazenda Velha'' (1940) * ''Painel'' (1951) * ''Santuário'' (1952) * ''O Cangaceiro'' (1953) * ''São Paulo em Festa'' (1954) * ''A Primeira Missa'' (1961)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0057022|Lima Barreto}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barreto, Lima}} Category:1906 births Category:1982 deaths Category:Brazilian film directors Category:Brazilian film producers Category:Businesspeople from São Paulo Category:20th-century Brazilian screenwriters
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