Seven quilombola territories will host film screenings from the programme of the 3rd Chica Pelega Film Festival, held in 2023
The Chica Pelega Cinema Circuit – quilombola edition arrives in May in the remaining quilombola communities of the Santa Catarina coast. The programme, divided into the curatorial axes Resistência SC, Quilombos no plural, Visões do mundo ancestral, Memórias vivas, Fazer quilombola and Raízes em cena, brings features and short films of fiction and documentary.
There will be seven sessions in spaces of the communities of Caldas do Cubatão (Santo Amaro da Imperatriz), Toca/Santa Cruz (Paulo Lopes), Morro do Fortunato and Aldeia (Garopaba), Ilhotinha (Capivari de Baixo), Maria Rosalina (Araranguá) and São Roque (Praia Grande). The tour begins on the 8th, in the Caldas do Cubatão community, and runs until May 15. Participation is completely free. (Check dates, venues and times in each coastal community at the end of the text)
The Circuit is an outgrowth of the 3rd Chica Pelega Film Festival – quilombola edition. Held in 2023, the Festival presented 28 films highlighting the culture and identity of the remaining quilombola communities of Santa Catarina and the country. Composed of online and in-person sessions, it passed through Fraiburgo, Capinzal, Monte Carlo and Campos Novos, in seven schools and other spaces. In addition, two workshops were held in two communities, led by Cuban filmmaker Yasser Socarrás González, which resulted in the shorts Luta e resistência, Nos batuques dos tambores: o sonho de muitos and A luta de um quilombola polinário. The shorts produced in the territories will also be in the Cinema Circuit programme.
Dedicated to the coastal communities and also to western Santa Catarina, where it will arrive in June, the circuit’s programme brings together different views and perspectives of the Black, Indigenous and white populations that make up the caboclo of the Contestado region. The names of the Festival and the Circuit honor Chica Pelega, a caboclo leader and combatant in the so-called Contestado War, which took place between 1912 and 1916, in Santa Catarina. According to Vanda Pinedo, of the curatorial committee and the Unified Black Movement (MNU), the intention was to “broaden the films about the Contestado, bringing other stories of Black figures with whom the communities identify in their historical pasts and in present events, in their community contexts and also in their larger struggles, in the similarities with other contexts of the country.”
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VENUE, DATE AND TIME OF THE SCREENINGS:
CALDAS DO CUBATÃO REMAINING QUILOMBO COMMUNITY
May 8 – Wednesday – 7 p.m.
Frei Hugolino Parish Hall
Santo Amaro da Imperatriz/SC
TOCA-SANTA CRUZ REMAINING QUILOMBO COMMUNITY
May 9 – Thursday – 7 p.m.
Verônica and Jorge’s House
Paulo Lopes/SC
MORRO DO FORTUNATO REMAINING QUILOMBO COMMUNITY
May 10 – Friday – 7 p.m.
Community multipurpose room
Garopaba/SC
ALDEIA REMAINING QUILOMBO COMMUNITY
May 11 – Saturday – 7 p.m.
Aldeia Headquarters
Garopaba/SC
ILHOTINHA REMAINING QUILOMBO COMMUNITY
May 13 – Monday – 7 p.m.
Community Parish Hall
Capivari de Baixo/SC
MARIA ROSALINA REMAINING QUILOMBO COMMUNITY
May 14 – Tuesday – 7 p.m.
Maria Rosalina Community
Araranguá/SC
SÃO ROQUE REMAINING QUILOMBO COMMUNITY
May 15 – Wednesday – 7 p.m.
Community Hall
Praia Grande/SC
