Women's and black cinema is the highlight of the Afro-Amazonas Audiovisual Festival

18 to 20 January 2024 to 19:00

Following the program dedicated to audiovisual in the month of January, the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center will host, from 18 to 20, the first edition of the Afro-Amazonas Audiovisual Exhibition. The event seeks to give visibility to women’s and black cinema, with the screening of audiovisual works directed and produced by women from states in the Legal Amazon, followed by conversations about the topics covered.

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Vida a Flux (Dir. Adrianna Oliveira, FIC, PA

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A stream of images that perform a woman’s experiences and feelings. Filmed with different cameras – from film to digital, “Vida a Flux” is a short film based on the director’s relationship with her religious education in a Belém do Pará surrounded by a mysterious atmosphere, between urban everyday life and a dreamlike craftsmanship of images and sounds

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Created and resident in Belém do Pará, Adrianna Oliveira is a director, editor and colorist, involved with various audiovisual productions for over 12 years. His debut documentary film, “The Battle of São Bráz”, was screened at important festivals around the country, including In-Edit Brasil, MIMO, and Mostra SESC Nacional de Cinema. Today, the filmmaker is part of the editing team of the series “Olhares do Norte” and “Bar Brasil”, produced by Marahu Filmes (PA). Her most recent work was the 2023 film Psica Manifesto, in which Adrianna performed the directing duties, together with Vilson Vicente, editing, colorization

and sound design.

Desire (Dir. Tássia Dhur, FIC, MA

)

An emotionally disconnected woman lives in an intriguing fishing village where she meets a fishmonger, they fall in love until the dark side of this relationship is revealed.
Tássia Dhur is an actress, born in São Luís (MA) and lived 8 years in São Paulo (SP). She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Guarnicê Film Festival for the feature film “Suddenly Drag”. She won the Best Director award at the South Film And Arts Academy (Chile) with the short film Diana, which she wrote, acted and directed. She recently won the Best Actress and Best Director award in Maranhão on the Screen for

the movie Desire.

Terra 333 (Dir. Keyci Martins, DOC, MA

)

“Building a house is like making a body, or bread. It’s all the same narrative, a mix of ingredients, finding an alloy, superimposing, creating layers.” This is the way that the artist Tathy Yazigi sees the process of building her own house, made with bioconstruction techniques. Through sustainable art, she expands the discussion about feminine power in civil construction.
Keyci Martins, is the director and screenwriter of the feature film Afogados, selected at the 14th Brasil Cinemundi in the Paradiso Multiplica category, where she receives screenwriting mentoring with the talent team from Rede Paradiso, under development. Screenwriter and executive producer of the short film “Terra333”, awarded the best art and best editing in the national competition of the Guarnicê Festival in 2022, selected at national and international festivals

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Session followed by debate with the theme Female Protagonism in Contemporary Cinema

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Solitude (Dir. Tami Martins, ANI, AP

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In the Amazon, Sol faces loneliness and lack after the end of a relationship, while in the Atacama Desert, a Shadow seeks independence but begins to slowly disappear.
Tami Martins is from Amapá, a designer, illustrator and urban artist. She directed and scripted the animation Solitude, winner of the Best Film award at the XVII FIM – Image-Motion Festival and received the Redeemer Award for Best Short Film at the 23rd Rio Film Festival. In 2022 she was also a finalist for the Grand Prize of Brazilian Cinema, also at the 50th Gramado Film Festival, and received the Prix de l’A Musique at the Le Chouette Film Festival in France. Tami is also an Illustrator and designer of the book Inventário Vermelho, by Danielle Andrade and other storytellers; she is executive producer of the series Amazônia Panc and Painter of Micro

Verses.

Cabana (Dir. Adriana de Faria, FIC, PA

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In the middle of the Amazon rainforest, a woman from the Cabana Revolution receives an unwanted visitor.
Adriana de Faria is a screenwriter and director from Pará. For eight years, he has been developing documentary and fictional projects, such as the culinary series Sabores da Floresta (GNT/Futura) and his short film Ari y Yo (52nd Brasilia Festival), screened in Latin America and won five awards. Boiuna, a short film in development, was the Best National Project at Lab Curta Cinema in 2021. Cabana, her first fiction as director, was awarded Best Short Film at the Rio Festival, selected for the 34th Kinoforum Short Film Festival, 22nd Goiânia Film Festival (Best Direction), 5th Look of the North (Honorable Mention) and Frapa 2023,

among others.

Divan de Uma Enabled (Dir. Nadia Maria, FIC, MA

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After several disapprovals during the process, Bárbara decides to seek psychological help to learn how to deal with trauma. During her analyses, she revives all the disapprovals. On the divan she regains her trust

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Nádia Maria, graduated in History with a bachelor’s degree from UFMA. Film Technician from IEMA. Screenwriter and Director of the short films: Just in the Legend (2015), Enslaved Africans (2017), Statistics (2018), Me, Myself and the Quarantine (2020), Don’t Enter Without Permission (2021), Divan de Uma Enslavada (2023). He scripted Perfect Family (

2020).
Session followed by debate with the theme Amazonian Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

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Akomabu — Culture Must Not Die (Dir. Helen Maria and Ju Haddad, DOC, MA

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Akomabu is the open and traveled path. A word that originates in the Ewe Fon language of Benin (formerly Dahomé), it baptizes the first Afro block in Maranhão in the early 1980s and with it the fight against racism and racial democracy. It is the story told by the central characters who in their testimonies bring memories, joys, sorrows and especially the desire to continue following this path and to resist without letting tradition die

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Helen Maria is a communicologist by training with a postgraduate degree in project management, with more than 07 years of experience. Her curriculum includes the production of audiovisual and cultural projects such as films and festivals. She is the creator and executive director of Manguezá — Creative Agency, an anti-racist agency where she puts her projects into practice. Juliana Hadad is a cultural producer with a degree in Marketing and works in the market to carry out audiovisual projects. She is the director of Muxima

Productions.

Good Blood (Dir. Joyce Cursino, FIC, PA

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Letícia is a 16-year-old girl who is surprised by the start of her menarche. Told by the school servant that her uniform was dirty, Letícia begins a journey in search of a tampon that makes her realize that the menstrual period is much more complex than she expected, a matter of dignity for people who have

periods.

The black actress and filmmaker from the Amazon, Joyce Cursino, is about to shoot her first streaming TV series, “Matriarchs of the Amazon”, approved first in the category in the LPG public notice in Pará. The 27-year-old has already directed the medium-length film “7 Palmas da Liberdade”, the award-winning independent short films “It’s Black Thing” (2017) and “He’s Not: Women from Paraná Against Fascism” (2019). She also directed the hybrid short film about menstrual dignity, “Good Blood”, “Amazon According to Youth — An Intergenerational Look” and two web series during the pandemic: the emergency edition of “Blacks in the Pandemic” — selected in the Aldir Blanc Law — and “Resilience”, a work in which she represented Brazil in the international competition Black Women Disrupt the Web, broadcast by the global platform of black and black

filmmakers, KweliTV.

ClockWork Show — Music video is cinema!

Chato — Marco Gabriel part. Débora Melo (Dir. Jessica Lauane, MA

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Black Magic — Enme feat. Download (Dir. Enme (Passion, MA

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4 by 4 — Enme (Dir. Jessica Lauane, Huge Passion)

Jessica Lauane is a director, producer, photographer, co-founder and owner of ClockWork Films. Graduated in the Cinematographic Production course from the Federal Institute of Maranhão and in the Cinematographic Language, Film Acting and Cinematographic Production courses from the Maranhão Film School, in addition to Video Clip Direction and Documentary Narrative from the Cinema

Institute.

Singer, songwriter, cultural producer and rapper, Enme has been active in the musical field since 2014. Awarded at the Street Sons Festival as a breakthrough artist, she recently released her album “Atabake”, which combines regional rhythms with urban genres. In 2023, the artist participated in Caravana das Drags, a reality show presented by Xuxa and Ikaro Kadoshi

on Prime Video.

Drum Sweat — Ney Lima For Peace (Dir. Lu Peixe, PA)

Lu Peixe is an audiovisual director and art educator. Master in Art from the Federal University of Pará. She coordinates the Zélia Amador de Deus Black Film Festival and the producer Cine Diáspora. He received the Best Cinematography Award at the 2022 Olhar do Norte Film Festival with the film My Saints Salute Your Saints, by Rodrigo Antônio. He received the Vicente Sales Experimentation, Research and Artistic Dissemination Award, 2021, from the Cultural Foundation of Pará, for the production of the film Zunzunzum do Mar (2022), the latter licensed by the Todes Play Streaming platform (2023). He participated in the Negras Narratives Lab 5th edition, organized by APAN (2023)

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September Sun — Elisa Maia (Dir. Elisa Maia, AM

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Elisa Maia, from Amazonas, lives relentless movement in music! He released the EP ‘Being of the City’ in 2013 and that same year he toured 06 capitals in the Amazon for an unprecedented journey of 15,000 km in 10 days. Since 2011, the Collective Dissemination has managed the Until Tucupi Festivals and the Somas Festival, which focus on black youth, women and the suburbs. Between 2020 and 2023, the artist released the unreleased singles, accompanied by music videos, Moons For So Many Faces, September Sun, All Healing Power and September Sun – Buguinha Dub Remix and Beauty, debuting as musical producer of her songs and ending a cycle before her new album, with the live session Dança Sozinha Sessions. Elisa Maia also signs Artistic Direction for the debut EP of the Amazonian rap duo Lary Go & Strela (2021) and the album Light Years (2023) by singer Karen Francis. The singer is one of those selected for the 2021 Natura Musical Notice and is preparing for the release of an album

and documentary.

Cardume – Karen Francis (Dir. Anna Suav, AM

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Anna Suav is an MC, poet, audiovisual and cultural producer, and journalist from the Amazon. The creator of the first slam group (2017 to 2019) in the Northern Region in Belém do Pará, a RAP and R&B singer, the artist is also active in the audiovisual sector, especially the production of music videos, directing and producing her own works, as well as those of other independent artists. One of his most prominent music videos is Cardume, a track by Amazonian artist Karen Francis. Karen Francis is a distinguished representative of contemporary R&B and Afrobeats produced in the North of the country. The powerful voice, the sensitive lyric and the musicality that combines the roots of black music, African sounds and influences of rap and MPB mark the melodies of the singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, a native of Maués, in the interior of the Amazon, and raised in the capital, Manaus

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Session followed by debate on the topic Black leadership in the Amazonian audiovisual

The curator is curated by producer Amanda Drumond.