Lívia Perez, M.A. is a filmmaker and media studies scholar. Her research and film work is focused on creating narratives with diverse medias to subvert hegemonic discourse that reflect on women, queer and global south citizens. Livia is currently working on an MFA project that purposes an encounter between queer feminist filmmakers from different generations.
Feminist Media Studies; Feminist Filmmaking, Women on Media; Queer Studies; Latinx and Latin America Studies; Feminisxht Media Practices; Decolonial Theory; Archives and Archival Practices; Feminist and Queer Historiography.
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Who Killed Eloa?, Canada, 2016.
Alliance for Women in Media - Southern California, Who Killed Eloa?, US, 2016
It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival, Lampiao da Esquina, Brazil.
DocsMX - International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City, Who Killed Eloa?, Mexico, 2016.
IDFA: International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, Who Killed Eloa?, Netherlands, 2015.
(forthcoming doctoral dissertation). Encounters with Norma Bahia Pontes - Works, Displacements and Deliriums of a Brazilian Lesbian Feminist Filmmaker, Videomaker and Essayist. Media and Audiovisual Processes Program, University of Sao Paulo, 2022.
From Cinema Novo to Lesbian Feminist Video: The Trajectory of Norma Bahia Pontes, REBECA, v.18, jul-dec, 2020.
Who killed Eloa? Revised images and reframed looks, FILME CULTURA, v.63, p.32-35, 2018 (ISSN: 2177-3912).
"LGBTIA+ Resistance in Brazil: From the Military Dictatorship to the Current Reactionary Wave", Brazilian Resistance to the Reactionary Wave Series, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, 2020
"Media and Performativity", XXV Visible Evidence, University of Indiana, Bloomington, USA, 2018
Academy Awards Oscar® qualified for Best Short Documentary – Carne (Flesh), 2021
CAPES Fellowship Visiting Scholar, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S., 2020.
XXI Visible Evidence Fellowship for Filmmakers, University of Indiana, Bloomington, U.S., 2018
CAPES Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Sao Paulo, Ministry of Education, Brazil, 2017-2021
57th Annual Genii Awards - Best Short Documentary, Women in Media Southern California (AWM SoCal), US, 2016
Honorable Mention - MIX Brazil - 'Lampiao da Esquina' - Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2016.
MAEC-AECID Fellowship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain, 2015
ATLANTIDOC, Best Short ‘Who Killed Eloa?', Uruguay, 2015.
CAPES Fellowship for Master Studies, University of Campinas, Ministry of Education, Brazil, 2014-2016