Brenda Ligia Miguel - Silicon Valley African Film Festival 2020

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Brenda Ligia Miguel is a Brazilian director, actress, scriptwriter and editor of her own films. Graduated in Social Communication from Oswaldo Cruz University (São Paulo), lived abroad in Switzerland, where studied French, and Trinidad & Tobago (Caribbean), where studied at the University of the West Indies. 

In 2014, her documentary Rabutaia won special prize in Cine PE festival (Recife) and was exhibited in Golden Orchid Festival, Pennsylvania (USA).
In 2017, her fiction Aqui Jaz (Here Lies) brought her the prize for best actress in Cine PE festival and was shown in Geofilm Festival, in Padua (Italy). 

Director Brenda Ligia Miguel
Silicon Valley African Film Festival 2020

In 2020, her short film Contrast, an antiracist manifest, was selected to Felino Preta Festival, a symbol of black resistance and afro-Brazilian culture; Silicon Valley African Film Festival (California, USA); and Lift Off Film Festival (USA).

Also in 2020, Ilê, documentary about racism in childhood, has got over 1 million views on the internet and was selected to Silicon Valley African Film Festival and Lift Off Film Festival, in August.
Her newest short film, About Surviving, a fiction made during the pandemic where Brenda plays the main role, is about to be released worldwide.
brenda.ligia@hotmail.com

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