Vagner de Almeida
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Exhibition Homosexualities, Feminisms, Racism, Education and ViolenceThis exhibition presents this film from 1994 to 2011 jobs that were created and directed by director Vagner de Almeida, these productions that bring the debate gender, sexuality, health and human rights. |
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Janaína Dutra - Uma Dama de Ferro A Film by Vagner de Almeida Produced by GRAB - Grupo Resistência Asa Branca Premiere May 12, 2011
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MÁSCARAS / MASK A film by Vagner de Almeida During a workshop to create masks at the offices of ABIA, young gay men living with HIV/AIDS share experiences among themselves. More than covering up what lies beneath, the preparation of the masks opens up a game of revelations in which issues such as safe sex, family, stigma, drug use, relationships and marriage are discussed without shame by those who live in their own skin the challenges posed by homosexuality, HIV/AIDS and the health system. Through the voices of its protagonists, this documentary film breaks the silence surrounding a number of greatest taboos related to living with HIV/AIDS. It aims to stimulate reflection and debate, as well as solidarity, with and among people living with HIV/AIDS and all those affected by the epidemic. |
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Sou Mulher, Sou Brasileira, Sou Lésbica filmed and directed by Vagner de Almeida "Sou Mulher, Sou Brasileira, Sou Lésbica / I am Woman, I'm Brazilian, I'm a Lesbian": Documentary dealing with the life of Brazilian women and their fighting homophobia in society and racist. These women still live in the margins of society and need much strength and courage to solve the problems of daily life. The strength of this documentary film is in the statements, the voices of these women, beautiful, strong, powerful, honest, warriors, mothers, daughters, aunts, grandparents, lovers, partners ... They show us all, what it is to be a lesbian in Brazil. They teach us about the discrimination and the challenges they must face to build lives of dignity and courage in a society full of stigma and intolerance. National premiere in January 2010 in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Cape Free Prize Respect for Diversity. 7 th Meeting of Cape Free Culture LGBT Cabo Frio-Teatro Municipal de Cabo Frio. A tribute to the Group Cape Free persons, organizations and initiatives that contribute to the eradication of homophobia. August 28 to September 1, 2010 - For Rainbow Film Festival - Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil 23 to August 26, 2010 - 9th International Seminar on Doing Gender: Diasporas, Diversity, Displacement - Shows Audiovisual - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Florianopolis, Santa Catarina August 20, 2010 - Lesbian's Day Group Cabo Free, Cabo Frio - Rio de Janeiro May 2010 - Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim - Ipamena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 2010 - CEDIM - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil January 2010 - Cinema Nosso - Lapa - Rio de Janeiro
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Sexualidade e Crimes de Ódio - Sexuality and Hate Crimes “Sexuality and Hate Crimes” is the first alternative documentary film produced by Director Vagner de Almeida and Richard Parker. This documentary seeks protest in the name of brutalities committed against homosexuals in Brazil. The hate crimes come from different segments of society for the director, the Catholic Church and radical evangelical groups are co-responsible for the rising intolerance, when they actively engage against the civil rights of non-heterosexuals. In a society dominated by machos, religious, and moralist values against the LGBTT communities, the absence of rights has already lead to the deaths of thousands of Brazilian citizens. From the beginning of this series of films about metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, various protagonists from the films have been barbarically murdered by people who still have their liberties, still assassinating other in the homosexual communities with impunity. In this country, in the first months of 2008 there were 45 homicides against gays registered. It is a year of homophobic violence, which worries us because the represent only the cases registered officially in police stations or in hospitals. Many of the afflicted are unrecognizable after death and mutilation. They are murdered merely because they are gays, lesbians or transsexuals. This film is a cry against this intolerance, which is dedicated to all of those who were brutally muFrdered in Brazil and worldwide. Festivals and Events |
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| Premiere: October 16, 2006
“Life”
these days is not a wonderful “Cabaret”! |
Director: Vagner de Almeida The
documentary film, “Living Day By Day” depicts the lives
of Brazilians who, with both courage and fear, strive to survive (many
times without success) the harsh and violent reality that they experience
in daily life. They are transgender individuals, homosexuals, ‘fags’,
‘queer boys’, gays, all residing in the Fluminense Valley,
where they confront prejudice, violent aggression, and social (and sometimes
physical) death along the margins of the Presidente Dutra highway –
the main connection between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, two
of the largest and wealthiest metropolises in Brazil.
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Borboletas da Vida -The Butterflies
2006 Citizenship in Respect for Diversity Prize, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Parade, São Paulo, Brazil 2006 Commendation - A Day for Diversity and Against Discrimination - ALERJ - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 15 & 16, 2006 - Screening at Toronto: AIDS 2006 XVI International AIDS Conference May 2007 - New Zealand's "Out Takes" Film Festival September 2008 - Centro Cultural da Justiça: Cinema Mostra Aids IASSAC, Hanoi - Vietnã - April 2009 More than 200 presentations including public schools, International and National Universities, NGOs and Film Festivals - 2010
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Sexuality, Diversity and Human Rights
Local Impacts of Religious Discourses on Rights to Express
Same-Sex Sexual Desires in Peri-Urban Rio de Janeiro (PDF)
Films Directed & Written by Vagner de Almeida
Biography and Filmography
