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Title:

Grandma has a video camera / Viva Pictures presents ; a film by Tânia Cypriano ; produced and directed by Tânia Cypriano ; written by Tânia Cypriano, Leslie Clark ; produced in association with KQED Public Television.

Publisher:

Viva! Pictures,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Video recordings.
Brazilians--United States--Social conditions.
Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
Brazilians--Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants--Social conditions.
Video recordings.
Brazil--Emigration and immigration.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Brazil.
United States.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films--United States.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.

Other Authors:

KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.), sponsoring body.
Viva! Pictures.
Cypriano, Tânia, narrator. film director, screenwriter, narrator.
Clark, Leslie, screenwriter.
Jesus, Elda Rosa De, director of photography.

Notes:

Narrated by Tânia Cypriano. Originally produced in 2007. "Life in the U.S. is good but it is bad. Life in Braziil is bad, but it is good."--Container.

Summary:

Documentary about the use of home video by a family of Brazilian immigrants, which portrays their lives in the United States for over twenty years. From enchantment to disillusionment, from idealization to conformity, first-hand images and voices depict how newly arriving immigrants see their new world, and struggle to establish their final home.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)172788042

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)