Viviane Ferreira

Viviane Ferreira (born in Salvador in 1985) is a Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer. She is also a lawyer and an activist of the Black movement and founder of Odun Filmes. She is also president and co-founder of the Brazilian Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals (APAN). Her film ''O Dia de Jerusa'' (2014), starring Léa Garcia, was shown at the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival. The short was transformed into the feature ''A Day With Jerusa'' (2020) and with it Viviane became only the second black woman to direct a fiction feature film in Brazil, the first being Adélia Sampaio. Provided by Wikipedia