O2 Filmes to Produce a Biopic of Samba Star Elza Soares: ‘If She Were American, She Would be Compared to Ella Fitzgerald’(EXCLUSIVE)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL  — Helmer Fernando Meirelles’ O2 Filmes will produce a biopic of star Elza Soares, considered one of the greatest samba singers ever and a symbol of the struggle against racism and women discrimination in Brazil. Patricia Andrade (“Two Sons of Francisco”) and Viviane Pistache are writing the screenplay, which is scheduled to go […]