In 2022, Campos Novos was one of the stages of the 2nd Chica Pelega Film Festival. On that occasion, more than 700 students from the public school network – municipal and state – had the opportunity to learn a little more about their origins and also about the Contestado War.
The 3rd Festival is a different edition, as it is dedicated to quilombola culture and resistance. After passing through Fraiburgo and Monte Carlo, the in-person programme will close on July 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Invernada dos Negros Remaining Quilombo Community, Campos Novos. The doors of the Salão Pinheiro Chato will be open to the public for the screening of the short films Vãnh gõ tõ Laklãnõ (2022), Disque Quilombola (2012), A Sússia (2018) and Invernada dos negros – fotografia e vídeo (2011).
The in-person Festival begins on Friday (07/07), with the screening of the short films Blackout (2016), NovoMundo (2020) and Disque Quilombola(2012), from 7:30 p.m., at E.M.E.F. Professor Eurico Pinz, in the São Miguel neighborhood, in Fraiburgo. It also passes through Monte Carlo, on 07/12 (Wednesday), from 7:30 p.m., at E.E.B.M. Erci Dick, where the short films Sobreviventes de Taquaruçu (1985), Invernada dos Negros – fotografia e vídeo (2011) and Antonieta (2015) can be watched. All sessions are free.
In May, as a counterpart, the film workshop O Minuto que foi took place, when Cuban filmmaker Yasser Socarrás González told his story and guided the quilombolas, who were thus able to make their own short films – which will be screened on all days of the in-person festival. The three films produced in the workshop are: A luta de um quilombola polinário (Campo dos Poli/ Fraiburgo), No batuque dos tambores: o sonho de muitos (Invernada dos Negros/Campos Novos) and Luta e resistência (Invernada dos Negros/Campos Novos).
After all the in-person sessions, there will be conversations addressing the themes and particularities of the films screened. The 3rd Chica Pelega Film Festival – quilombola edition was selected by the Elisabete Anderle Culture Support Award – 2022 Edition, carried out with funds from the Government of the State of Santa Catarina, through the Catarinense Culture Foundation.
In addition to the in-person Festival, a completely free online Festival also takes place during the month of July, with 28 films screening on the website https://chicapelega.com.br and three more livestreams where the theme can be broadened in conversations with residents of the quilombola territories.
CAMPOS NOVOS, Friday, July 14, 7:30 p.m.,
Salão Pinheiro Chato, Invernada dos Negros Remaining Quilombo Community
Invernada dos negros – fotografia e vídeo (2011) Directed by Daniel Herrera, André Constantin
Synopsis: In southern Brazil, “invernada” means a time of winter, a place of shelter for the herds. Through popular language, the word came to name a rare episode of the country’s history of slavery: the Invernada dos Negros – a stronghold of Afro-descendants who keep alive the memory and struggle of the enslaved heirs of an old farm on the Santa Catarina plateau. Fragments of this striking history make up the photography and video project titled Invernada dos Negros, twice awarded under the National Prize for Afro-Brazilian Cultural Expressions of the Palmares Foundation (2010-2012). The project has generated exhibitions and educational actions across Brazilian regions and cities but has never been shown on television. The proposal is to revisit the images and sounds of the characters and places of Invernada dos Negros in a documentary for television. At the center of the narrative is the ritualization of the photographic image of the Invernada’s characters, with the memories of the place as crossed and underlying storylines.
Vãnh gõ tõ Laklãnõ (2022) Directed by Barbara Pettres, Flávia Person and Walderes Coctá Priprá
Synopsis: An archaeologist, a poet, a pastor and kujá, a teacher and a rapper piece together the history of their people, the Laklãnõ/Xokleng, inhabitants of southern Brazil: the time of the forest, the near extinction, the recovery of the language and the political leadership against the Time Frame (Marco Temporal).
Disque Quilombola (2012) Directed by David Reeks
Synopsis: Children from Espírito Santo talk in a fun way about what life is like in a quilombola community and on a hillside in the city of Vitória. Through a genuine children’s game, the two groups talk about their roots and reveal how childhood has more similarities than differences.
A Sússia (2018) Directed by Lucrécia de Moura Dias
Synopsis: Lagoa da Pedra Quilombola Community. Direction, production and screenplay by Lucrécia Dias. To the sound of drums, tambourines and bass drums, women and men of all ages sing, play, clap, dance, recreate the traditions and retell their own history in the Lagoa da Pedra Quilombola Community.
Films produced in the counterpart workshop O Minuto que foi:
A luta de um quilombola polinário (2023)
Synopsis: The film briefly portrays the struggle of the remnants of the Campo dos Poli quilombo, in Fraiburgo/SC. Cristiane Goulart is quilombola and shares memories of her grandparents and of the family with the taking of the territory; her partner, Alessandro Pereira, adds by exposing the situation of quilombola education and the challenges they face. Besides the couple, João Carlos Rodrigues, a member of APAFEC, contributes his thoughts on the struggle.
Luta e resistência – Invernada dos negros (2023)
Synopsis: Living in the quilombola community Invernada dos Negros demands much struggle and resistance, especially to realize its residents’ dreams. Dreams long idealized, dreams their ancestors had and could not fulfill. Over time, new quilombola families formed and arrived in the community, bringing with them the desire to plant, produce and build their homes, to show that with struggle and much resilience it is possible to achieve the goals they set.
Nos batuques dos tambores: o sonho de muitos (2023)
Synopsis: We are the continuation of our ancestors’ history and the hope of our children. Life gradually teaches us a fundamental truth: dreams, struggle and resistance are what will lead us to the end of the road successfully. The “griots” (read griôs) are considered living libraries of all stories. Stories that are passed from one generation to another through “oral tradition,” that is, through speech and orality, and not through writing. Thus, the griôs keep and pass on memories, dreams and teachings that unite elders, adults and children, connecting past, present and future. The African griôs tell, sing, play musical instruments and dramatize the stories they narrate. That is why they are also considered complete artists.
Lives
The 3rd Chica Pelega Film Festival – quilombola edition begins on Saturday (July 1st), with the opening livestream at 7:30 p.m. On that day the short film Disque Quilombola (2012) will be screened. After the screening, Vanda Pinedo and Lu Kilombola talk about the festival and the quality of the films it offers. The mediation will be by Sinclair Biazotti.
The second livestream takes place on 07/15 (Saturday) at 4 p.m. with the title Luta Quilombola na Mostra Chica Pelega and will be a conversation with the leaders of the Invernada dos Negros and Campo dos Poli Remaining Quilombo Communities, bringing together griôs (older residents who pass on quilombola history and traditions to the younger ones) and leaders for a conversation about their similarities and differences in the processes of recognition of their lands and their cultural characteristics. The livestream will be mediated by Rafaell Marcelino.
For the closing livestream, on 07/28 at 7:30 p.m., the chosen short film was Pele Negra, Justiça Branca (2022), which recalls the Gracinha Case, in which Maria Graça de Jesus, a resident of the Toca de Santa Cruz Remaining Quilombo Community, had her two daughters taken by the Guardianship Council, without justification. After the screening, the conversation will be with Maria Helena Thomaz and Adriana Ferreira da Silva of the Afro-Brazilian Studies Center (NEAB/UDESC).
SERVIÇO
3rd Chica Pelega Film Festival – quilombola edition
What? 3rd Chica Pelega Film Festival – quilombola edition (film sessions and livestreams)
When? July 1 to 31, online and in-person sessions
Where? Online at https://chicapelega.com.br and in-person sessions in Fraiburgo, Monte Carlo and Campos Novos
Full programme: https://chicapelega.com.br/programacao
How much: Free
Produced by: VMS, Pupilo TV and the Quilombola Curatorial Committee
Cultural support: Unified Black Movement/MNU, Afro-Brazilian Studies Center – NEAB/UDESC and the Paulo Freire Association for Education and Popular Culture/APAFEC
Funding: Elisabete Anderle Culture Support Award – 2022 Edition, Catarinense Culture Foundation and Government of the State of Santa Catarina
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