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Livia Perez

Alum
MFA Class of 2023

Lívia Perez, M.A., Ph.D. is a filmmaker, producer, and media scholar. Her moving-image critical practice spans documentaries interrogating archival materials to animate stories traditionally erased,connect generations, and imagine alternative futures. Her work focuses on sexuality, gender, and feminist media history and diasporic media history.

Research Interests: 

Feminist Media Studies; Diasporic 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.

Education and Training: 
Ph.D., Media and Audiovisual Processes, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
M.A., Multimedia, University of Campinas, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
B.A., Social Communication – Medialogy, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Selected Exhibitions: 

Sundance Film Festival, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here dir. by Erica Sarmet, USA, 2022 (as executive producer)

BFI Flare A Wild Patience, Has Taken Me Here dir. by Erica Sarmet,, UK, 2022 (as executive producer)

Frameline, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here dir. by Erica Sarmet,, USA, 2022 (as executive producer)

Newfest, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here dir. by Erica Sarmet, USA, 2022 (as executive producer)

Outfest LA, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here dir. by Erica Sarmet, USA, 2022 (as executive producer)

Havana Film Festival, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here dir. by Erica Sarmet, Cuba, 2022 (as executive producer)

New York Times Op-Docs, Carne dir. by Camila Kater, USA, 2020 (as executive producer)

Annecy, Carne dir. by Camila Kater, France, 2020 (as executive producer)

IDFA,Carne dir. by Camila Kater, Netherlands, 2019 (as executive producer)

TIFF, Carne dir. by Camila Kater, Canada, 2019 (as executive producer)

Locarno Film Festival, Carne dir. by Camila Kater, Canada, 2019 (as executive producer)

Visible Evidence, Who Killed Eloa? and Lampiao da Esquina, USA, 2018. (as director)

LASA, Who Killed Eloa?, Spain, 2016. (as director)

Hot Docs, Who Killed Eloa?, Canada, 2016. (as director)

Alliance for Women in Media - Southern California, Who Killed Eloa?, US, 2016  (as director)

Mix Brasil Film Festival, Lampião da Esquina, Brazil, 2016 (as director)

It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival,  Lampiao da Esquina, Brazil. (as director)

DocsMX, Who Killed Eloa?, Mexico, 2016.  (as director)       

IDFA, Who Killed Eloa?, Netherlands, 2015. (as director)

Selected Publications: 

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. Doctoral Dissertation.

 

From Cinema Novo to Lesbian Feminist Video: The Trajectory of Norma Bahia Pontes, REBECA, v.18, jul-dec, 2020.            

 

Book Review: Feminino e plural: Mulheres no cinema brasileiro (Female and Plural: Women on Brazilian Cinema), edited by Karla Holanda and Marina Cavalcanti Tedesco; Mulheres atrás das câmeras: As cineastas brasileiras de 1930 a 2018 (Women behind the Camera: Brazilian Filmmakers, 1930–2018), edited by Luiza Lusvarghi and Camila Vieira da Silva and Mulheres de cinema (Women of Cinema), edited by Karla Holanda, Film Quarterly, (2020) 74 (2): 122–125.

 

Who killed Eloa? Revised images and reframed looks, FILME CULTURA, v.63, p.32-35, 2018 (ISSN: 2177-3912).

Selected Presentations: 

"Restoring Norma Bahia Pontes: her legacy from the Modern Brazilian Cinema to the Lesbian Feminist Video in the United States, LASA Congress, Latin America Studies Association, San Francisco, USA, May 6th.

"Restoring Norma Bahia Pontes: Les Antillais (1966/1967)", University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2022

"Feminist Film and Video in the 1970s", Campinas State University (Unicamp), Campinas Brazil, 2022

"From Cinema Novo to Lesbian Feminist Video: the trajectory of Norma Bahia Pontes", Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), webinar/Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2021

"The New Brazilian Cinema", Film Quarterly Webinar, USA, 2021

"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

 "Media and Femicide", Inaugural Class at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC-MG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2017.

 

Honors and Awards: 

The Best Dissertation Award for 2022 nomination at CAPES, USP and Brazilian Society of Cinema and Audiovisual (awards to be announced in December)

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