- Protested against the arrest of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, detained on 1 March 2010 and held in ward 209 of the Evin prison.
- Been a professor at the Department of Social Communication at PUC-Rio since 1979.
- From a Jewish family with Ukrainian and Bessarabian roots, he lived in Tijuca and Copacabana, in addition to living in Chile and Paris.
- Began his film making career in the cineclub movement in the 1960s, leading the Federation of Film Clubs of Rio in 1968.
- Had been facing diabetic neuropathy for 10 years, a disease that harms the nervous system.
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