Janaína Oliveira

Janaína Oliveira has a Ph.D. in History and is a professor at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ). She is Head Programmer at the Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro and on the programming committees for FINCAR (Festival Internacional de Cinema de Realizadoras) and International Women Filmmakers Festival in Recife. From 2019 to 2020 she was an advisor for African and Black diaspora films for the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. She programmed the series Soul in the eye: Zózimo Bulbil legacies and the contemporary Black Brazilain Cinema for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019). She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for African Studies at Howard University in Washington D.C. (2016-2017). Her research has been focused on Black and African cinemas since 2009. She is the founder of FICINE (Black Cinema Itinerant Forum).