Film Festivals as Spaces for Knowledge Exchange and Community Building: The Case of Brazil’s CachoeiraDoc

Isabel Machado; Ana Rosa Marques

doi:10.33823/jfs.2022.4.1.152

Authors

Isabel Machado
Ana Rosa Marques Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2022.4.1.152

Keywords:

Cachoeira, Bahia, Film Festivals, Community, University, Recôncavo

Abstract

In this article, Ana Rosa Marques discusses the origins and development of CachoeiraDoc, an annual documentary film festival organized since 2010 by the faculty and students of the Film and Audiovisual Program at the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB) in the Northeast of Brazil. She argues that, beyond an artistic event celebrating cinema, CachoeiraDoc has been a space in which the university and the residents of the small town of Cachoeira enter into a fruitful dialogue, exchanging knowledge and ultimately engaging in community building.

Author Biographies

Isabel Machado

Isabel Machado is a cultural historian who specializes in the fields of gender and sexuality and celebration studies, and currently investigates carnivals and drag competitions. Her forthcoming book, Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile, uses Mardi Gras as a vehicle to understand social and cultural changes in Mobile, Alabama (USA) in the second half of the twentieth century.

Ana Rosa Marques, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia

Ana Rosa Marques is a documentary filmmaker and a professor in the Film and Audiovisual Program of the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (Brazil). She is one of the coordinators of CachoeiraDoc (Cachoeira Documentary Film Festival) and served as coordinator for the SOCINE (Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual/Brazilian Society for the Study of Cinema and Audiovisual) from 2020 to 2022, editing thematic seminars. She holds a BA in communications from the Universidade Federal da Bahia, an MA in communications from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, and a doctorate in communications from the Universidade Federal da Bahia.