A table focusing on the cinematic portrayal of people of African descent and other historically marginalised communities in Portugal, with a particular emphasis on creative protagonism, equitable access to resources, and the distribution of works that challenge hegemonic narratives.
With support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
The session will be held in Portuguese, with no translation. Free admittance.
(director)
Fernando Miguel Moreira is a Portuguese-Guinean-Cape Verdean artist, born in Bissau in 1986.
As a director, his most notable work to date is Cantores do Submundo (2012), and he will soon present his new project, Associação.
(journalist and programmer)
Independent worker in various cultural fields, such as programming, journalism, research, and cinema. Since 2010, she has been editing the BUALA portal.
(director)
Director, videographer and scriptwriter, Pocas Pascoal was born in Angola. She participated in several exhibitions and made films about her and collective memory, denouncing the consequences of war and colonization.
(actor and director)
Welket Bungué is a Berlin-based artist, born in Guinea-Bissau in 1988. His films compose an ecosystem of creative freedom, an invitation to cast off from old hardened narratives and into a space of thinking, resilience, and cross-border identity.
(director and sociologist)
Maíra Zenun is a poet in transit, artist and sociologist. She is the co-creator of the Nêga Filmes Collective, where she develops transdisciplinary projects in cinema, curatorship, education, photography, poetry, programming and performance.