Renata Soares Junqueira

Soul in the eye and camera in the hand: peculiarities of the epic in Brazilian cinema narratives directed by black women

This project is conceived as a modest contribution to a necessary review and expansion of the so-called New History of Brazilian Cinema (2018), which, although it reserves some space for female (white) filmmakers, in no way considers Brazilian cinema directed by black women. Following the pioneering work of Adélia Sampaio (Amor maldito, 1984), other names, now in the 21st century, have been standing out in this cinema whose directors, despite their competence and originality, have only been able to rely on scarce financial resources, often insufficient for the production of films that are not short or medium-length. We have included in the research corpus contemporary films that already have a nascent critical body of work, very efficient in identifying and contextualizing their themes and identity guidelines, but which have not yet been analyzed in depth regarding their forms of expression.