Joel Zito Araújo
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Joel Zito Araújo is a Brazil
ian film director
, writer and producer of films and TV programs. Since 1984, Mr. Araújo has produced 26 films, as follows: 1 feature film, 2 short films and 25 documentaries (22 short-length films and 3 full-length films). Some of these works have been awarded with prizes or selected to be screened at Film Festivals throughout the world. From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Araújo was President of the Brazilian Filmmakers Association. He received his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the Escola de Comunicações e Artes at the University of São Paulo
in 1999. He was Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Departments of Radio, TV, and Film and Anthropology as well as the Center for African & African-American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin from August 2001 to May 2002.
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, writer and producer of films and TV programs. Since 1984, Mr. Araújo has produced 26 films, as follows: 1 feature film, 2 short films and 25 documentaries (22 short-length films and 3 full-length films). Some of these works have been awarded with prizes or selected to be screened at Film Festivals throughout the world. From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Araújo was President of the Brazilian Filmmakers Association. He received his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the Escola de Comunicações e Artes at the University of São Paulo
University of São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian university and one of the country's most prestigious...
in 1999. He was Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Departments of Radio, TV, and Film and Anthropology as well as the Center for African & African-American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin from August 2001 to May 2002.
Filmography
- Daughters of the Wind (Filhas do Vento) was awarded with 8 prizes at the 32nd Gramado Film Festival (known as the most important Film Festival in Brazil) in August 2004. Awarded by that Festival jury, its prizes were, as follows: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Film by the Critics Review. This film also received the Best Film award at the 8th Mostra de Filme de Tiradentes, Minas GeraisMinas GeraisMinas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
in January, 2005 and the Best Full-Length Script award at the Second Paratycine Festival, 2005. It also earned the Best Actor and Best Actress awards from the Festival de Cinema de Macapá, in 2005.
- Cinderellas, Wolves and one Enchanted Prince (Cinderelas, Lobos e um Príncipe Encantado) (107 min., HD) was awarded with an Honorable Mention at the X BrasíliaBrasíliaBrasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
International Film Festival in 2008. It also received the Best Film and the Best Director awards at the 9th Iberoamerican Film Festival of Sergipe (Curta-SE9) in 2009, and the Best Full-Length Documentary prize (from audience) and Honourable Mention from Jury at the VII Mostra Vidas na Tela – Natal. 2009.
- Denying Brazil (A Negação do Brasil) (91 min., 35 mm)was awarded with a prize by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture which sponsored the 1999 National Documentary Competition. In 2001, this film received the "Best Brazilian Film award", "the Best Research award" and the Quanta Prize at the 6th International Documentary Festival It's All True- É Tudo Verdade, a Festival that takes place in São PauloSão PauloSão Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
and Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
. It also earned the “Gilberto Freire Film” award and "Best Full-Length Documentary Script award" from the 5th Recife Film Festival in 2001.
Publications
Book:- A Negação do Brasil – o negro na história da telenovela brasileira [The denial of Brazil – blacks in the history of Brazilian soap operas]. São Paulo: Ed. Senac, Nov. 2000, 323 pp.
New Book:
- O Negro na TV Pública [The Black People on Brazilian PBS]. Brasilia: Fundação Cultural Palmares, 2010.
Articles:
- O Negro na Telenovela Brasileira: Uma Síntese. The Afro-Brazilian mind: contemporary Afro-Brazilian literary and cultural criticism / edited by Niyi Afolobi, Márcio Barbosa, & Esmeralda Ribeiro. Pgs 257-270. Africa World Press, Inc. Trenton, NJ. 2007.
- Le noir dans les feuilletons televises. In: Cinémas d’amérique latine – Revue annuelle de l’Association Rencontres Cinemas d’Amerique Latine de Tolouse-(ARCAL). - no. 15. pags 17-27. 2007
- Televisão e Racismo [Television and racism], Tempo e Presença journal, n. 315, Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Koinonia, Jan.-Feb., 2001.
- Identidade Racial e Estereótipos sobre o Negro na TV Brasileira [Racial identity and stereotypes about blacks on Brazilian TV] In: Guimarães, A.S.A. & Huntley, Lynn (org.) Tirando a Máscara: Ensaios sobre o Racismo no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 2000.
- Por uma Estratégia para a Inserção dos Afro-Brasileiros na Mídia [Towards a strategy for including Afro-Brazilians in the media] In: Anais do Seminário Ética e Estética Multiracial Brasil-África do Sul. Seminar held in Brasilia and São Paulo on 16 & 17 December 1996. Brasilia: Fundação Cultural Palmares /Ministério da Cultura, 1997.
- Estratégias e Políticas de Combate à Discriminação Racial na Mídia [Strategies and policies for combating racial discrimination in the media] In: Estratégias e Políticas de Combate à Discriminação Racial (Org. Kabengele Munanga). São Paulo: Edusp/Estação Ciência, 1996.
External links
- "IMDB"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1064633/
- "FILM REVIEW; An Estrangement Crosses Generations, Shadowed by Race-NYT"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23WIND.html?ex=1403323200&en=4f400031949f4ea7&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
- "Brazilian Documentary Filmmaker Joel Zito Araújo Headlines Diaspora Fest and Symposium on Black and Independent Film"http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=141926
- "Film Screenings at MOMA"http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/7015
- "Multiracial Brazil Planning Quotas for Blacks - NYT" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/02/world/multiracial-brazil-planning-quotas-for-blacks.html?scp=2&sq=joel+zito+araujo&st=nyt