Abdias Nascimento
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activist, who created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people's human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation.
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
as Self (archive footage)Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and...
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O Homem do Sputnik
as ChicoUFO falls on a hillbilly's hencoop and he tries to sell it. Soon international missions are sent...
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De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as SelfThrough clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil...
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Fala Mangueira!
as SelfA documentary on the influence that carnival has on the daily life of the Mangueira hill in Rio...
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Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
as HimselfThe African deity that brought in Brazil Together with the blacks, Exu is known as the orixá of...
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Cinco Vezes Favela
as (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
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Abolição
as HimselfIn 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful...
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Negro em Mim
as Self (archive footage)"Negro em Mim" is an investigative documentary with black artists and thinkers in Brazil today....
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