Connect With Your Roots Workshop

Anna Borges do Sacramento

Directed by:

Aída Esther Bueno Sarduy

Produced by:

Rafael Sampaio / Wendy P. Espinal

Production Company

Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual / Ibirí Filmes

Contact:

  • Year

    2026

  • Format

    Early production

  • Length

    80 min

  • Country

    Brazil / Spain

Synopsis

Anna Borges do Sacramento was an enslaved woman who fought twice for her freedom in 18th century Brazil. The story of a group of Afro-Brazilian women “unarchives” this history, returning it to oral memory and imagining possible physical characteristics of the character, bringing to the present this woman determined to be free.

  • Aída Esther

    Bueno Sarduy

    Director

    Filmmaker and anthropologist. PhD “Cum Laude” in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Doctoral thesis on the leadership of priestesses in the Xangô of Recife. Research in Cuba and Brazil on African religions from a gender perspective. 1939 days (7′, 2015). Guillermina (17′, 2019).

  • Rafael

    Sampaio

    Producer

    Director of BrLab, producer and founder of Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual. He has worked at the Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo and the Cinemateca Brasileira. He is coordinator of audiovisual platforms, such as BrLab, and has produced films such as ‘Sobre Rodas’ and ‘Diz a Ela que me Viu Chorar’.

  • Wendy

    Espinal

    Producer

    Independent creative producer. She develops hybrid and documentary films seeking to rethink Caribbean and Latin American film languages from a gender perspective. She bases her work on research, process and meaning, focusing on female directors.

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