cinema da vela: black women behind the camera
July 9 (7:30pm)
CineSesc
Admission-free. Tickets will be distributed one hour before the screening. Limited seats.
The filmmakers Juliana Vicente, Roberta Estrela D`Alva and Adélia Sampaio talk about their experiences as filmmakers, the challenges and the pleasure of expressing their unique voices. Adélia approaches Amor Maldito, the country`s first feature film directed by a black woman, and her new projects, Roberta talks about her trajectory through poetry, film and TV, Juliana shares the lessons learned from the Afronta! series and the projects of TV Preta. They are here for FIM - Women in Cinema International Festival. Mediation of Minom Pinho, creator of the Festival.
about the directors
Adélia Sampaio was born in Belo Horizonte. She was the first black woman to direct a feature film in Brazil. She produced films like Parceiros de Aventura (1980), by José Medeiro, and Um Menino... Uma Mulher (1980), by Roberto Mauro. She directed Fugindo do Passado: Um Drink para Tetéia e História Banal (1987), and others.
Juliana Vicente is the director, producer and founder of Preta Portê Filmes and Plataforma TV Preta. Directed and produced the series Afronta!, a co-production with Futura Channel, and is currently directing the feature documentary Diálogos com Ruth de Souza. She participated in the Talent Campus (2015 / Berlin Festival). As a director, she has been to festivals such as IDFA, Havana Festival, Huelva Festival and TIFF with short films like Colors and Boots and Mauá: Surroundings. In 2011, she was awarded the New York Film Festival with the mid-length film Leva, which premiered at the Havana Festival.
Roberta Estrela D’Alva is director, playwright and researcher, she graduated in Performing Arts at USP and has a Masters Degree in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP. She is a founding member of the hip-hop theatre group Núcleo Bartolomeu de Depoimentos and of Frente 3 de Fevereiro, against racism in the country. Among her audiovisual productions are the documentary Zumbi Somos Nós (direction and screenplay), the video art A Imagem do Som: Futebol (codirected) and the short film Herói Tombado (direction and screenplay). She also directed Slam: Voz de Levante with Tatiana Lohmmann.