J.N. Canabarro

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Aug 05, 1948 (76 years old)

J.N. Canabarro

Known For

The Struggle for our Land
1h 25m
Movie 2022

The Struggle for our Land

In 1991, 67 families were settled in Brazil. It became one of the biggest clashes between the Landless Rural Workers Movement and the local elite. The doc revisits the history of the Liberdade no Futuro settlement, in these 30 years.

Empty House
1h 25m
Movie 2021

Empty House

Raúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the nights on the pastures.

Animal
TV Show 2014

Animal

Dr. Joao Paulo Gil, a biologist, is back home looking to find answers that can save his life. He suffers from a genetic psychological disorder inherited from his father, who believed he had characteristics of a Puma. The disease is degenerative and has no scientific cure.

O Tempo e o Vento
0h 47m
TV Show 2014

O Tempo e o Vento

It tells the story of two families that are mortal enemies in the fictitious city of Santa Fe, at the end of the 20th century. Its characters who reek of soil, blood, and hard liquor get involved in various events in the small town, where their passions, desires, idealism and envy become intertwined and collide in a poetic and unexpected way.

Biography

J.N. Canabarro began his career in the south of Brazil as an actor in a local theater company. Later, in his own theater company, he became a director, set designer and actor. At the beginning of the 1980s, he had his first experience in cinema, acting in a Super 8 production, "Tempo sem Glória". From then on, he dedicated himself to regional and national productions. He has also appeared as an actor in TV series such as TV Globo's "O Tempo e o Vento" in 2014 and GNT's "Animal" in 2014. He has extensive experience acting in films, most recently in the film "Casa vazia", which won an award at the Gramado Film Festival (Brazil) in 2019. His most recent production is the feature film O Velho Nepo, scheduled for release in 2025.