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Distribution

  • TVE-BA, 3a Mostra Lugar de Mulher é no Cinema. Salvador,

    Brazil, February 7, 2019.

  • Kweli TV—Online Streaming Distribution Platform, USA,

    2017-Present.

  • DIFFA—Distribution Internationale de Films et Fictions d’Afrique.

    Paris, France, 2015.

  • Exhibition rights sold to TV5Monde. Paris, France, Jun 30, 2015

  • TV Brasil, Programa Nação. São Paulo, Brazil, Sept 4, 2015

  • VHX—VOD Online Distribution, USA, 2014. DVD & VOD

    distribution, USA

Festivals & Awards

  • ECHO Film Festival TV BRICS, Russia

    Nominated: Best Short Feature Film

  • Philadelphia International Film Festival. Philadelphia, PA, 2016

    Awarded: Best Foreign Language Short Subject

  • Silicon Valley African Film Festival. Mountain View, CA, 2016

    Awarded: Diaspora Narrative Short Film

  • Plateau—Festival International de Cinema. Praia, Cape Verde

    Awarded: Best Narrative Short

  • Global Girls Film Fest. Chicago, IL, 2015

    Awarded: Best Narrative Short

  • Black Star Film Festival. Philadelphia, PA, 2014

    Awarded: Special Recognition for Directing Narrative

  • Reel Sisters of the Diaspora International Film Festival & Lecture

    Series. New York, NY

    Awarded: The Spirit Award & Best Cinematography

Official Selection

  • Africadelic Festival. Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020

  • 28° Festival Internacional de Curtas de São Paulo, São Paulo,

    Brazil.

  • PanAfrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou—

    Fespaco Burkina Faso.

  • New York African Film Festival, Lincoln Center. New York, NY,

    2015.

  • Cine + Mas, San Francisco Latino Film Festival. San Francisco,

    CA, 2015.

  • African Diaspora International Film Festival. Chicago, IL, 2015.

  • Encontro Zózimo Bulbul, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015.

  • Cannes, Short Film Corner. Cannes, France, 2014.

Community Screenings

  • Afrocinematic & KweliTV, African Spirituality and the Resilience of

    the African Diaspora. Maryland, August 2019

  • KweliTV Live Experience Screening. Chicago, IL, July 2019

  • FICINE—Fórum Itinerario do Cinema Negro, Centro Cultural

    Plataforma. Salvador, Brazil, March 2018

  • Mostra Diretoras Negas no Cinema Brasileiro. Brasilia, Rio de

    Janeiro, Brazil, July 2018

  • Mostra Zaira de Culturas Pretas, Memorial Municipal Getúlio

    Vargas. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2017

  • 2a Mostra Lugar de Mulher É no Cinema. Salvador, Brazil, April

    2017

  • Sanzala Cultural Forum. Switzerland, December 2017

  • Mostra de Cinema Negro de Sergipe. Bahia, Brazil, March 2017

  • Cine Ibomin, Salvador, Brazil, July 2017

  • Cinemawon Auteur Cinema Projections. Gwadloup & France, 2016

  • BrasArte, Berkley, CA, September 2016

  • ODUNFA Ifá Festival. Oakland, CA, May 2016

  • Mecca Independent Film Festival, April 2016

  • La Peña Cultural Center. Berkley, January 2016

  • EGBÉ – Mostra de Cinema Negro de Sergipe. Sergipe, Brazil. April

  • 2016

  • AERA 2015 Annual Meeting Film Expo Films. Chicago, IL, AprilNascimento 5

    2014 2015

  • Sala Walter Da Silveira, Salvador. Brazil, December 2015

  • Centro de Umbanda Oxalá. Ituberá, Brazil, December 2015

  • Centro Cultural Plataforma. Salvador, Brazil, December 2015

  • Sessão AfroeducAÇÃO no Cinema. São Paulo, Brazil July 2015

  • Homecoming Films from the African Diaspora. Oakland, CA,

    November 2015

  • Mostra Novos Cineastas Negros do Brasil em Destaque no Mundo.

    Pelotas, Brazil, November 2015

  • BloomScreen and Levantamos. Washington DC, November 2015

  • SERNEGRA. Brasilia, November 2015

  • Pre-Screening, The New Parkway. Oakland, CA, February 2014

  • Callie Rose Literary Arts Café and Brazil Cultural Center. Los

    Angeles, CA, October 2014

Cast

Isabela Santos

Rosalinda Santos

Lucas Santos

Carolina Su

Jamile Alvez

Josi Reis

Israel de Jesus

Pablo Souza

Alice Moreira, Claudionor Neto, Diego Souza, Diogo Silva, Luana Pessanha, Lucimar Souza, Marcus Santos, Natalia Santiago, Paulo Silva & Ricardo Costa

Adeleine de Jesus, Antônia Rocha, Carliane Santos, Celinalva de Jesus, Eliete dos Santos, Eliza Cruz, Esmeraldina Vilas-Boas, Helena de Jesus, Marcela Souza, Maria da Conceição Santos, Maria de Fátima, Renilde Nascimento, Wellington Neves (Beinha)

LILI

GRANDMA

ELEGGUA

MOTHER

YEMANJÁ

OSHUN

YOUNGER BROTHER

OLDER BROTHER

DANCE TROUPE

RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Crew

PRODUCTION

WRITER, DIRECTOR

CO-PRODUCER & DP

STEADICAM OP

COSTUME DESIGNER

HAIR & MAKEUP

SOUND RECORDIST

CHOREOGRAPHER

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY

LOCATION MANAGER

BOAT PILOTS

DRIVERS

POST-PRODUCTION

EDITOR

SUPERVISING EDITOR

ORIGINAL SCORE

VFX

SOUND SUPERVISOR

SOUND DESIGNER

FOLEY ARTIST

COLORIST

Eliciana Nascimento

Benjamin Watkins

Maoma Faria

Zuarte Junior

Wilson Argolo

Anderson Santos

Marilza Oliveira

Larissa Santos & Tina Reis

Carlito Ferreira

Nei & Zé Carlos

Adailton Santos, Benedito de Assis, Jeferson Nascimento

Eliciana Nascimento

Pat Jackson

George Kallis

Benjamin Watkins

Dan Olmsted

Jamie Branquinho

Rodolfo Gutierrez

Chris Tipton-King