Activation – Sertão Negro – Maria Grampinho Film Club and talk with Ceiça Ferreira, Edileuza Penha Souza, Urânia Munzanzu and Milena Manfredini

On November 29, the Cineclube Maria Grampinho [Maria Grampinho Film Club] will take place, followed by a roundtable discussion with Ceiça Ferreira, Edileuza Penha Souza, Urânia Munzanzu and Milena Manfredini. The third of four sessions of the Maria Grampinho Film Club, which are part of the Sertão Negro’s work at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, will take place from 3 pm to 5 pm at the Sertão Negro exhibition, on the first floor.

The activation features the screening of the teaser of Mulheres negras em rotas de liberdade [Black women on the road to freedom](’20, Urânia Munzanzu, work in progress), and  the short films Filhas de lavadeiras [Laundry girls](’22, Edileuza Penha de Souza, 2018), Flora (’16, Ana Moura, 2023), Mulheres Bordadas – Fios do Passado [Embroidered Women – Threads of the Past](’10, Lilian Solá, 2015) and Grandes Senhoras [Great ladies] (’14, Milena Manfrediini, 2022). The session presented traces a path of memory, affection, and freedom, weaving a sensitive dialogue between territory, maturity, and ancestry, a tapestry of images that reaffirms the centrality of black women in the invention of other possible worlds.

After the screening, there will be a talk with curators Ceiça Ferreira and Edileuza Penha Souza and filmmakers Urânia Munzanzu and Milena Manfredini on memory, on audiovisual creation, artistic processes, and affective territories.

Ceiça Ferreira is a professor and researcher in the Film and Audiovisual Course at the State University of Goiás (UEG). She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Brasília (UnB). She is co-founder of Sertão Negro Ateliê e Escola de Artes. She is the creator and director of Cineclube Maria Grampinho, whose curatorial proposal highlights black cinema.

Edileuza Penha de Souza is a professor, filmmaker, and researcher. She holds a postdoctorate in Communication and a PhD in Education from the University of Brasília (UnB). Among the films she has directed are the short films Vão das Almas (2023); Filhas de Lavadeiras (2019), voted best film at the 2021 Brazilian Film Grand Prix; and the feature film Vozes e Vãos (2025). She is the creator and organizer of the Adelia Sampaio Black Film Competition.

Urânia Munzanzuis a black woman, a lesbian, and a practitioner of Candomblé, born and raised in Pelourinho, Salvador. Filmmaker, screenwriter, poet, and producer. Master’s degree in anthropology from UFBA, founder of Frente Marginal de Arte Negra and partner at Acarajé Filmes. She produces transatlantic narratives, covering Brazil, the Caribbean, and Africa, with a focus on race, gender, and black women’s politics. She has dedicated herself to discussing the concept of kitchen cinema, a cinema made by black filmmakers from the African diaspora.

Milena Manfredini is a filmmaker, anthropologist, visual artist, and teacher, with a degree in Anthropology from PUC-Rio and a master’s degree from UFF. She has directed and written films such as Eu preciso destas palavras escritas [I Need These Words Written Down], Guardião dos Caminhos [Guardian of the Paths], De um lado do Atlântico [On One Side of the Atlantic], Grandes senhoras [Great Ladies], and Stella do Patrocínio e a gênese da poesia [Stella do Patrocínio and the Genesis of Poetry], and is a screenwriter for Chic Show (Globoplay). Since 2017, she has been training young black filmmakers from the periphery, combining cinema, anthropology, and visual arts with a focus on black memory.