Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1950. Tendler majored in history from the University of Paris, with a master’s degree in cinema and history from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences. His filmography includes the documentaries The JK Years: A Political Trajectory (1980), Jango (1984), Retrato Falado do Poeta Castro Alves (1997) and Marighella - Retrato Falado do Guerrilheiro (2001). He presented Glauber The Movie, Labyrinth of Brazil (2003) at the 27th Mostra and Utopia and Barbarism (2009) at the 33rd Mostra.