Viviane Ferreira

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Viviane Ferreira
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Viviane Ferreira
Born1985
Salvador, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
OccupationFilm director, producer, screenwriter
Years active2008-present

Viviane Ferreira (Salvador, 1985) is a Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer. She is also a lawyer and an activist of the Black movement and founder of Odun Filmes.[1] She is also president and co-founder of the Brazilian Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals (APAN).[2] Her film O Dia de Jerusa (2014),[3] starring Léa Garcia, was shown at the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival. The short was transformed into the feature A Day With Jerusa (2020)[4] and with it Viviane became only the second black woman to direct a fiction feature film in Brazil, the first being Adélia Sampaio.[5][6]

Biography[]

Viviane was born in the neighborhood of Coqueiro Grande, Salvador, Bahia. She moved to São Paulo at the age of 19 and has been living there since.[7][8] She graduated in Film at the Stanislavsky Film School and Institute and in Law at the Universidade Paulista - UNIP, specializing in Public Law with focus on Copyright. She did her master's in Communication and Culture Policies at the University of Brasília (UnB).[9]

In 2008, she made her first documentary short, Dê Sua Ideia, Debata.[10] In that same year she founded Odun Filmes, a production company dedicated to identities in the audiovisual, cultural and educational production.

Born in the periphery, she combines her education as a lawyer and as a filmmaker through Black activism. She participated in the youth collective of Ceafro (an organization of Black women in Salvador), and was president of the Associação Mulheres de Odun, an organization for Black feminism, until 2017.[11]

In 2014, her short film O Dia de Jerusa was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.[12]

In 2020, Viviane became the second black woman in Brazil to individually direct a feature film, being preceded by Adélia Sampaio with Amor Maldito in 1984.[13][14][15] Her feature, A Day With Jerusa (2020) was nominated for Best Feature Film at the 23rd edition of the Tiradentes Film Festival. Based on her 2014 short documentary, the film addresses themes such as loneliness and the ancestry of black women through the encounter of characters from different generations. The entire cast of the film is made up of Black actors.[16][17]

Viviane was president of the 2021 Brazilian Academy Awards Selection Committee that submitted the documentary Babenco: Tell Me When I Die to represent Brazil in the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. However, the film was not chosen by the Academy.

Filmography[]

Filmography
Year Title Director Screenwriter Producer Notes
2008 Dê Sua Ideia, Debata Yes Yes Yes Documentary Short
2009 XIII Marcha Noturna Yes Yes Yes Documentary Short
2009 Festa da Mãe Negra Yes Yes Yes Documentary Short
2010 Mumbi7Cenas pós Burkina Yes Yes Yes Experimental Short
2011 Jennifer No No Yes Fiction Short
2012 Samba de Cururuquara No No Yes Documentary Short
2014 O Dia de Jerusa Yes Yes Yes Fiction Short

Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival

(Short Film Corner)

2014 Peregrinação Yes Yes Yes Documentary Short
2017 O Som do Silêncio No No Yes Fiction Short
2017 Dara a Primeira Vez Que Foi ao Céu No No Yes Fiction Short

Co-production: Dandara Produções

2018 Simone: Estórias em Estação de Transferência No No Yes Fiction Short

Co-production: Dandara Produções

2019 Mato Adentro No No Yes Curta ficcional
2019 Pessoas - contar para viver Yes Yes No Segment: "Esquinas"
2020 Um Dia com Jerusa (A Day With Jerusa) Yes Yes Yes First Feature Film

Nominated as Best Feature Film at the 23rd Tiradentes Film Festival

References[]

  1. ^ "Website - Odun Filmes".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Viviane Ferreira - IMDb".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "O Dia de Jerusa (2014) - IMDb".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Um Dia Com Jerusa (2020) - IMDb".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "O Dia de Jerusa". TV Brasil - EBC. October 25, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Curta sobre a memória ganha exibição em Cannes". A Tarde.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Meirelles, Adalberto. "Curta sobre a memória ganha exibição em Cannes". A Tarde.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "Diálogos Ausentes - Viviane Ferreira". Itaú Cultural.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Ferreira, Viviane. "Lattes".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ Oliveira, Joana (March 8, 2020). "Luz, Câmera, Mulher". El País Brasil.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ CartaCapital (2017-09-01). "Conheça Viviane Ferreira, a segunda negra a dirigir um longa no Brasil". CartaCapital (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  12. ^ Line, A. TARDE On. "Curta sobre a memória ganha exibição em Cannes". Portal A TARDE (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  13. ^ CartaCapital (2017-09-01). "Conheça Viviane Ferreira, a segunda negra a dirigir um longa no Brasil". CartaCapital (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  14. ^ "Para produtores e diretores negros, fazer cinema no Brasil ainda é 'uma guerra'". Rede Brasil Atual (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2018-08-08. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  15. ^ TEMPO, O. (2020-01-26). "Competitiva de curtas na Mostra de Tiradentes tem 70% de realizadores negros". Diversao (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  16. ^ CartaCapital (2017-09-01). "Conheça Viviane Ferreira, a segunda negra a dirigir um longa no Brasil". CartaCapital (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  17. ^ Ferreira, Viviane (2020-08-25), Um Dia Com Jerusa (Drama), Odun Formação & Produção, retrieved 2021-11-10
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