Chucho Narvaez is a Mexican-Brazilian director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 of photography, news cameraman and documentarian.

Narvaez was born in the Federal District (DF) of Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. He started his long career at Churubusco

Estudios Churubusco

Estudios Churubusco is one of the oldest and largest movie studios in Latin America located in the Churubusco neighborhood of Mexico City.It was inaugurated in 1945 after a 1943 agreement between RKO and Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta...

 and Azteca studios, where he worked with great names of the Cinema of Mexico such as Cantinflas

Cantinflas

Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes , was a Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter known professionally as Cantinflas. He often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin...

, Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz was a Mexican actor of the cinema of Mexico and Hollywood.-Early life:Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and Adela Hastings . He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín...

, Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood...

, and others.

In the 1940s, he lived in the United States and worked in Hollywood. He has lived in Brazil since 1948, where he remained after shooting an American film

Cinema of the United States

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. He worked at Atlântida Cinematográfica during the golden age of chanchada

Chanchada

Chanchada is the name of a genre of Brazilian comedies, often musical. Its name , coming from the Paraguayan Spanish slang and meaning "mess", "trash", "trick", implied the ease in accessibility of these films' content to a culturally deprived audience.In 1935, the company Cinédia of Rio de...

s, with Oscarito, Grande Otelo

Grande Otelo

Grande Otelo is the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata...

, Anselmo Duarte, Cyll Farney, Eliana, Carlos Manga, and Watson Macedo.

In 1965, Narvaez was one of the founders of Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

, where he filed reports on topics such as the Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

-born guerilla Che Guevara

Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...

, the death of John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

, and Queen Elizabeth II's

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

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 visit to Brazil. In 1969, he worked, while at Rede Globo, with the polemic journalist and politician Amaral Neto and created a new style of documentaries for television, the program Amaral Neto, o Repórter. Years later, in the 1980s and 1990s, he was the director of Television and Cinema Center of Petrobras

Petrobras

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