With two short films and a feature film at the Tiradentes Film Festival 2020, the presence of a young photographer highlights a path of no return and the urgency of looking carefully at a cinema that goes through vital processes, of formation and political construction.
The projects in which she participates receive the treatment of rigorous research, on an old issue, but still little faced: after all, how to film black bodies? We find the strength of a perspective committed to the decolonization of making cinema, and we celebrate in his work the reception of an ethical issue unavoidable to our time. What she has done, articulated in collectives, such as the Collective of Photography Directors of Brazil, to which the jury extends its tribute, is a cinema that assumes for itself the responsibility of facing not only a dispute of narratives, but the agency of a black sensitivity.
Because we know that the skin is our first lens, and for the ways in which it brings out new images, we reward a photographer in full activity, for the autonomy of a cinematic making that will cross the times.
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