Visibilidades negras e "escrevivência" em documentários dirigidos e protagonizados por mulheres negras (2015-2019)

Abstract

Black women feel the gender and race asymmetry in the invisibility in which several times they are put in society. The movie industry, which has been considered for a long time as a mean of male chauvinism and racism propagation, is also accused for not giving equal visibility and professional opportunities to all social segments. Hence, this work aims to discuss the lack of visibility from the black film-maker women and also from black women in general, as the protagonists of their stories and of the movie scene. For that, black movie-maker women who, in the last years, made documentaries which theme was racism and its impact in the black women lives were interviewed. It’s expected to assess the difficulties of being black women in the movie industry, what motivated them in the choice of the documentary format to produce their movies and how they think the analyzed movies in this research contribute to the debate about racism and its consequences in the black women lives. The work, in the History field, will be guided in the oral history methodology and in the political possibilities from the conceptual tools from intersectionality and “escrevivência”, a concept forged by Conceição Evaristo.