Seeds: Black Women to the Front

Éthel Oliveira, Júlia Mariano

2020, 105’

Documentary on the insurgency of black women in Brazilian politics after the killing of Marielle Franco.
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about the director Éthel Oliveira

Documentary filmmaker, film club founder and editor. She studied Social Sciences at UFF, was a researcher at the Laboratory of Ethnographic Film with Guarani people and developed projects on popular communication and human rights in Olinda. In 2018, she created a film festival called Baobá Mostra de African Cinemas in Recife.

about the director Júlia Mariano

Director, producer and screenwriter. Graduated in Film Direction from the San Antonio de los Baños Film School (Cuba). She was also an invited student at Baden-Württemberg Filmakademie (Germany), where she directed the documentary Gegen den Strom. In 2012, she wrote and produced the feature film A Batalha do Passinho (Best Documentary - Mostra Novos Rumos – Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival).

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country

Brasil

ratings

14 anos

screenplay

Éthel Oliveira, Helena Dias, Júlia Mariano, Lumena Aleluia

cinematography

Marina S. Alves

editing

Mariana Penedo

production designer

Julia Rocha

sound

Anne Santos, Irla Franco, Vitoria Parente, Juciele Fonseca

sound designer

Simone Alves

soundtrack

Maíra Freitas

producer

Camilla Shinoda, Carolina Mazzi, Clara Alves, Éthel Oliveira, Julia Araújo, Julia Rocha, Juliano Almeida, Rafaela Miranda Rocha, Valentina Homem PRODUTORA ASSOCIADA Sapucaia

executive producer

Júlia Mariano

cast

Mônica Francisco, Rose Cipriano, Renata Souza, Jaqueline de Jesus, Tainá de Paula, Talíria Petrone

contact

embaubafilmes@gmail.com

Documentary on the insurgency of black women in Brazilian politics after the killing of Marielle Franco.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARD
Debut

about the director Éthel Oliveira

Documentary filmmaker, film club founder and editor. She studied Social Sciences at UFF, was a researcher at the Laboratory of Ethnographic Film with Guarani people and developed projects on popular communication and human rights in Olinda. In 2018, she created a film festival called Baobá Mostra de African Cinemas in Recife.

about the director Júlia Mariano

Director, producer and screenwriter. Graduated in Film Direction from the San Antonio de los Baños Film School (Cuba). She was also an invited student at Baden-Württemberg Filmakademie (Germany), where she directed the documentary Gegen den Strom. In 2012, she wrote and produced the feature film A Batalha do Passinho (Best Documentary - Mostra Novos Rumos – Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival).