Black Brazilian Soul

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Black Brazilian Soul

Alma Negra, do Quilombo ao Baile

Brazil 2024 Documentary cor 104 min.

The film is a broad dive into the Afro-Brazilian universe through soul music, portraying the emergence of the genre, its arrival in Brazil at the end of the 60s and its musical success in the music industry, up to its peak with the famous bailes blacks in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The documentary portrays, in addition to the music, the movement to value black culture and the political fight against racism at that time. Through the eyes of some of the great black intellectuals of the 70s and today, such as Beatriz Nascimento, Lélia González and Edneia Gonçalves, the film seeks to portray the black Brazilian soul in quilombos and bailes soul.

Brazil documentary music racism black experience

direction

Flavio Frederico

screenplay

Mariana Pamplona, Flavio Frederico

cinematography

Jacob Solitrenick, Jacques Cheuiche, Janice D’Avila, Carlos André Zalasik

editing

Flavio Frederico

sound

Fernando Russo, Gabriela Cunha, Leo Krauss, Luciano Raposo, Luís Rovai

sound design

Ricardo Camara, Toco Cerqueira

music

Eduardo Bidlovski (BiD)

art direction

Rafael Terpins

production

Flavio Frederico, BiD

produced by

Kinoscópio, Soulcity

distribution

Kinoscópio

indicative rating

16