The ingredients of Black Cinema

Abstract

In front of the oppressions that mark Brazilian society e that reproduce themselves, as in so many other instances, in the medium of creative audiovisual production, Black Cinema is a potentially transformative proposition, which is geared towards the widening, the education of audiences e the reconfiguration of structures that support a chain of systemic injustices. We acknowledge here the importance of communication, its relationship with culture and, above all else, the nature of the anti-racist pedagogical commitment needed to rethink Brazilian cinema. To do so, it is necessary to face the challenge of confronting globalizing hegemonic forms of mass cinema and assume the responsibility to the images that one is willing to render visible and the creativity to capture spectators attention and establishing to them an intimate, affectionate and consequential dialogue.