---
name: "Paulo Gil Soares"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paulo-gil-soares"
fi1m_id: "paulo-gil-soares"
imdb_id: "nm0811689"
tmdb_id: 931718
wikidata_id: "Q110866194"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "6 August 1935"
died: "28 June 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T15:36:27.392061+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Paulo Gil Soares

## Identity

Paulo Gil Soares

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paulo-gil-soares
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paulo-gil-soares
- **IMDb ID:** nm0811689
- **TMDB ID:** 931718
- **Wikidata ID:** Q110866194
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110866194, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811689/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/931718

Costume designer. Born 6 August 1935 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Died 28 June 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 6 August 1935, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- **Died:** 28 June 2000
- **Active:** 1964–1967
- **Frequently works with:** [Glauber Rocha](https://film.one/person/glauber-rocha.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110866194, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811689/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/931718

## Biography

Paulo Gil Soares was a Brazilian director, writer and journalist. Born in Salvador, Bahia, he began working in theatre and film cooperatives in the city during the 1950s and collaborated with Glauber Rocha on the Jornal da Bahia and related publications.

He contributed to Rocha’s *Black God, White Devil* (1964) as co-writer, costume designer, art director and assistant director, and provided costume design for *Entranced Earth* (1967). Soares directed the documentary *Memória do Cangaço* (1964) and the fiction feature *Proêzas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz* (1967). He later directed segments for the Caravana Farkas documentaries and worked in television, including as artistic director of Globo Repórter until 1983.

Soares died in Rio de Janeiro in 2000.

*Sources: enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br, imdb.com, s3.amazonaws.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Black God, White Devil* (1964), Fi1m 82, Writer, Costume design, Costume Design, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/black-god-white-devil.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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- *Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo* (1981), Director
- *O Poder do Machado de Xangô* (1976), Director
- *A Man and His Cage* (1974), Director, Writer
- *Procura-se uma Virgem* (1972), Writer, Director, Associate Producer
- *Padre Cícero* (1971), Director
- *Jaramataia* (1970), Director, Screenplay
- *Frei Damião: Trombeta dos Aflitos, Martelo dos Herejes* (1970), Writer, Director
- *A Vaquejada* (1970), Director
- *O Homem de Couro* (1970), Director
- *A Morte do Boi* (1970), Director
- *A Mão do Homem* (1970), Director, Writer
- *A Erva Bruxa* (1970), Director, Writer
- *Antonio das Mortes* (1969), as Set Decoration · Costume Design
- *Pirenópolis – O Divino e as Máscaras* (1969), as Narrator
- *True Brazil* (1968), Director
- *Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring* (1967), Director, Screenplay
- *Entranced Earth* (1967), as Art Direction · Costume Design
- *A Cabra na Região Semi-Árida* (1966), as Narrador
- *Memória do Cangaço* (1964), Narrator, Director
- *Black God, White Devil* (1964), Writer, Costume Design, Art Direction — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/black-god-white-devil.md)
- *Ganga Zumba* (1963), Writer

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