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Héctor Babenco on PIXOTE

Pixote • 21m

The interview with director Héctor Babenco excerpted here was recorded in 2016 for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Visual History Program Collection, administered by the Academy’s Oral History Projects department.

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