The purpose of the African Women in Cinema Blog is to provide a space to discuss diverse topics relating to African women in cinema--filmmakers, actors, producers, and all film professionals. The blog is a public forum of the Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema.
Le Blog sur les femmes africaines dans le cinéma est un espace pour l'échange d'informations concernant les réalisatrices, comédiennes, productrices, critiques et toutes professionnelles dans ce domaine. Ceci sert de forum public du Centre pour l'étude et la recherche des femmes africaines dans le cinémas.
Director/Directrice, Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema | Centre pour l'étude et la recherche des femmes africaines dans le cinéma
Cinemateca Brasileira apresenta a mostra 80 anos de Zezé Motta - the Cinemateca Brasileira presents the exhibition 80 ans de Zezé Motta (the 80 years of Zezé Motta)
Entre os dias 7 e 9 de junho, a Cinemateca Brasileira apresenta a mostra 80 anos de Zezé Motta, comemorando a importante contribuição da atriz ao audiovisual brasileiro. Artista plural, com trabalhos no teatro, na música, na televisão e no cinema, a atriz também se destaca pelos anos de luta por maior representatividade de artistas negros e negras nas artes.
From 7-9 June the Cinemateca Brasileira presents the exhibition 80 ans de Zezé Motta (the 80 years of Zezé Motta) celebrating the important contribution of the actress in the Brazilian audiovisual landscape. Zezé Motta's multifaceted practice as artist spans theater, music, television and cinema, she is also known for her activism throughout the years towards a greater representation of black artists.
O documentário aborda o apagamento social dos corpos negros femininos a partir da experiência pessoal e artística de 11 mulheres negras, que debatem identidade, memória coletiva, ancestralidade, afetividades e maternidade. A partir de entrevistas e performances, afirmam-se como corpos políticos que visibilizam suas muitas formas de ser, existir e resistir, ao passo que respondem à pergunta: o que é ser mulher negra no Brasil?
The documentary “Corpos Invisíveis” addresses the social erasure of black female bodies from the personal and artistic experience of eleven black women, who debate identity, collective memory, ancestry, affections and motherhood. Based on interviews and performances, they assert themselves as political bodies that make their many ways of being, existing and resisting visible, while answering the question: what does it mean to be a black woman in Brazil?
Quézia Lopes is a filmmaker, art educator and researcher in black contemporary short-film cinema. Director, screenwriter and producer/executive producer. She assisted with executive production on the documentary feature films “Between us, a secret” (Encantamento Filmes and Vitrine Filmes, 2020), available at MUBI, and “Love Lessons” (Encantamento Filmes and Elo Company, 2020), available at Globoplay. In 2023, she directed the transmedia documentary “Invisible Bodies”, her first feature as a screenwriter and director, in which she is also the executive producer, sponsored by Coca-Cola Brasil, Instituto Coca-Cola and Fundo Baobá. Curator, director and executive producer of the Multiplateform Cultural Exhibition “Bodies (In)visible: between pain and potency” (2021), sponsored by SECEC-RJ (Brazil, RJ). Screenwriter and Director of “Audiovisual Production Workshop” (2021), VOD content for the streaming platform Nitflix, which was sponsored by the Secretary of Cultures of Niterói (Brazil, RJ). (Text: From Youtube trailer)
Renata Martins & Juliana Gonçalves: Adélia Sampaio,One Black Brazilian Woman Filmmaker We Must Remember | Conheça a cineasta negra que fez história no cinema nacional
Afro-Brazilian women at the helm of FICINE - Black Cinema Forum - Janaína Damasceno, Janaína Oliveira, Kênia Freitas, Tatiana Carvalho Costa
FICINE, is a space for teaching, learning and critical inquiry on global cinema, photography and audiovisual production that has black cinemas, cultures and experiences as its point of departure. With black women at the helm, Janaína Damasceno, Janaína Oliveira, Kênia Freitas and Tatiana Carvalho Costa, their multifold interest is cinema, criticism, academic discourse and audience building, beyond mere illustrations or allegories about black histories and cultures, African/diasporic world cultures, rather about deepening the debates about cinemas, in an attempt to probe the myriad issues of cinema.
