SEEDS: BLACK WOMEN IN POWER
by Éthel Oliveira & Júlia Mariano

Brazil 2020 | Documentary | 105 min
(OV with English subtitles)

⚠️ Attention : Due to Geoblocking the film is NOT accessible in Brazil!

Filmposter Seeds: Black Women in Power

Black Women in Power shows the transformation of mourning into struggle. In response to the brutal execution of Rio de Janeiro city councilor Marielle Franco, the 2018 elections turned into the biggest political upheaval led by Black women that Brazil has ever seen. In all states, Black female politicians stood against the growth of fascism in the country. In Rio de Janeiro, Mônica Francisco, Rose Cipriano, Renata Souza, Jaqueline de Jesus, Tainá de Paula, and Talíria Petrone applied for the positions of state and federal deputy aiming for political renewal. The documentary follows these women in their campaigns in 2018, showing that a new way of doing politics in Brazil is possible.

Biography of the Directors :

Éthel Oliveira is a documentary filmmaker, film club member, and editor. She is coproducer of Sementes: Mulheres Pretas no Poder (Seeds: Black Women in Power, 2020). She studied social sciences at Fluminense Federal University, researching the Guaraní indigenous people in Rio and Mato Grosso do Sul through the Ethnographic Film Laboratory and spent ten years producing human rights media projects in Pernambuco. Her previous works are Terceira Diaspora (Third Diaspora) and Vinte de Novembro (November 20, 2011), Arremate (The End, 2017), and the Baobá African Cinema Showcase in Recife (2018).

• Terceira Diaspora (2011)
• Vinte de Novembro (2011)
• Arremate (2017)
• Seeds: Black Women in Power (2020)

Júlia Mariano is a director, screenwriter, and producer. She graduated from Cuba’s School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV). In 2014, Júlia directed Ameaçados (The Threatened People), which won awards at Rio de Janeiro’s Short Film Festival, São Paulo’s Kinoforum Festival, and Maranhão’s Guarnicê Film Festival. In 2015 she directed Do Corpo da Terra (From the Body of the Land) produced in partnership with the Movimento dos Sem Terra (Landless Movement). In 2017 she founded NOIX CULTURA and directed the documentary series Desde Junho (Since June).

• Ameaçados (2014)
• Do Corpo da Terra (2016)
• Desde Junho (2017)
• Seeds: Black Women in Power (2020)

Trailer Seeds (Sementes) :