Black Brazilian Cinema: Roots of Afro-Brazilian Cinema

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Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry.  A new generation of mostly young filmmakers is changing the historical absence of Afro-descendents in almost all sectors of the film industry, an arena from which Black women have been doubly excluded. The last decade has seen a growing body of films with a diverse set of approaches to cinema which challenge the historical flattening of representations of Black life in Brazil.

6 April 2022 - Day One: Roots of Afro-Brazilian Cinema 
Opening talk by K├¬nia Freitas followed by screening of Raquel Gerber's┬á├örí: A reconstruç├úo da identidade negra no Brasil (The Reconstruction of Black Identity in Brazil,┬á1989) and Zózimo Bulbul's┬áAlma no Olho┬á(Soul in the Eye, 1973)┬á

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