Cosme Alves Netto

Cosme Alves Neto was a Brazilian film scholar and the Director of the Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) in Rio de Janieiro from 1965 to his premature death in 1996. During the many years of Brazilian military dictatorship, the Cinemateca was both a cultural refuge and a centre of resistance. At FIAF, he was a great ambassador of Brazilian and South American cinema. He was a popular figure at FIAF Congresses for many years, and a member of the FIAF Executive Committee in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He died on the same day as Gene Kelly, star of Singin' in the Rain, one of his favourite films.

Silvia Oroz, Manuel Martínez Carril, and Susana Schild, "Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996)", Journal of Film Preservation, Issue 52, April 1996, pp.66-68

Cosme Alves Netto, "A la recherche du passé cinématographique brésilien", FIAF Information Bulletin, Issue 8, April 1975,pp.10-11