Abdias Nascimento

Born: 1914-03-14

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.


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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-12-08

Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and...

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The Man of The Sputnik

as Chico
Released: 1959-08-21

UFO falls on a hillbilly's hencoop and he tries to sell it. Soon international missions are sent...

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Cinco Vezes Favela

as (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
Released: 1962-01-01

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

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De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

as Self
Released: 2020-09-11

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil...

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Othelo The Great

as Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)
Released: 2024-09-05

A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a...

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Abolition

as Himself
Released: 1988-05-13

In 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)
Released: 2020-10-19

"Negro em Mim" is an investigative documentary with black artists and thinkers in Brazil today....

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Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento

as Himself
Released: 2017-10-18

The African deity that brought in Brazil Together with the blacks, Exu is known as the orixá of...

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Fala Mangueira!

as Self
Released: 1983-01-01

A documentary on the influence that carnival has on the daily life of the Mangueira hill in Rio...

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