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A detailed and surprising research on the distribution of films in Brazil in the first two decades of the 20th century. In The business of the film: the film distribution in Brazil, 1907-1915, professor and researcher Rafael de Luna Freire looks closely at documents, magazines and newspapers of the time, using a vast set of archives to analyze phenomena and trace hypotheses about the circulation of films in the country. Among them, we highlight the collection of the Ferrez family - a pioneer in the import, distribution and exhibition of films in Brazil, today with pioneering unchallenged by film historians - whose history of successes and failures seems to translate the ambiguities of the country's cultural market.