“When everything is really bright, we can see everything; but when everything is dark we have possibilities.”
—Diego Paulino
This dossier was born out of a series of conversations that took place over the course of a month as part of an event on Black Brazilian cinema held at the University of California, Irvine, in the spring of 2022, organized by ourselves and the translator Natalia Affonso. We invited six young Black Brazilian filmmakers whose works have made an impact on the landscape of Brazilian cinema within the past decade to share insights with us in informal conversations after the screenings of their films. The filmmakers were André Novais Oliveira, director of Temporada (Long Way Home, 2018); Grace Passô, director of República (Republic, 2021) and an actor in Temporada; Diego Paulino, director of Negrum3 (Blackn3Ss, 2018); Yuri Costa, director of Egum (2020); Naira Évine Soares, director of O Dia...
University of California Press