Carmen Santos (8 June 1904 – 24 September 1952) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and film producer. Santos began acting at the age of fifteen, and started producing films from 1930 onwards with Blood of Minas Gerais. She founded her own film studio Brasil Vita Filmes in Rio de Janeiro. Santos directed the 1948 film Minas Conspiracy, in which she also starred.
Selected filmography
Blood of Minas Gerais (1930) Minas Conspiracy (1948)
References
Bibliography
Marsh, Leslie. Brazilian Women's Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy. University of Illinois Press, 2012. Shaw, Lisa & Dennison, Stephanie. Brazilian National Cinema. Routledge, 2014.