Viviane Ferreira
Raised in the outskirts of Salvador, Viviane Ferreira is a filmmaker and screenwriter and lawyer, besides being an activist and leader in brazilian independent production, creating and assuming the presidency of APAN - Association of Audiovisual Black Professionals and 2021, assuming the direction of SPCine, film distributor of the city of São Paulo.
Alongside the work in the institutions, she is willing to participate in new projects. Viviane directed O dia de Jerusa (2014), selected for the Cannes Film Festival short show, which unfolded in Um dia com Jerusa (2020), the first national fiction feature with a team composed mostly of black women. Both with Lea Garcia as the protagonist.
Viviane’s films address the trajectory of an afro descendant family marked by exclusion, racism and social inequality, but also by affection and resistance.