The insertion of black women in the labor market, especially in the audiovisual market, is the goal of the Sociocultural Institution Cinema Nosso, Gabriela Gonçalves, coordinator of audiovisual training projects at the institution, told Agência Brasil this Monday (24th) to Agência Brasil. The effort to insert women in the audiovisual market is in line with the International Day of Black, Latin American and Caribbean Women, which is celebrated on July 25 and seeks to insert black women in the job market. The institution Cinema Nosso aims to reduce social inequalities and provide technology and experiences of inclusion in a segment where the lack of diversity is worrying. A 2021 survey by the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (Dieese) reveals that unemployment among black women is twice as high as among white men. Furthermore, black women receive the worst wages. In the audiovisual market, only 20% and 25% of female representatives hold positions of direction and script, respectively, according to a 2018 survey by the Multidisciplinary Study Group of Affirmative Action (Gemaa), of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), and of the National Cinema Agency (Ancine). When the survey seeks the participation of black and indigenous women in these same positions, the result is even worse, reaching 0%. It means that if the range of women is already small, that of black women is non-existent. Lacuna Gabriela Gonçalves informed that no percentage of black women appear in large audience feature films, both in the case of script and direction. “This lack of number is a very alarming fact because, in fact, there are black women within these positions in filmmaking, in Brazil, mainly in short films”, she argued. According to Gabriela, research points to the lack of access for black women to public resources and public notices to make feature films in the country. “This is very serious because the Brazilian black population is a very large number, as well as black women are a large percentage in Brazil. We are the basis of the constitution of society, in the very sense of work. Then, when we talk about this lack of access and resources to tell our stories, we see that racism is also there in this process of us not having space to be inserted in this market that economically moves the country a lot”, details the coordinator of Audiovisual Training Projects. The coordinator maintains that the big question is when to “racialize” these accesses and that ends up being an impression of the existing racism in Brazilian society, translated into lack of accesses, resources, opportunities. In the case of audiovisual, this gap will directly impact the construction of the subjectivity of the black community in general, she pointed out. “Lack of access for professionals who study and train for this; lack of access to these places of leadership and creation of storytelling. This will influence films and audiovisual works as a whole. Not only movies, but soap operas, series, drawings, in which we won’t see each other. It is difficult for us to identify with narratives that are not told by us. It will always stay in that stereotyped place. Therefore, it is very important that we have access to these resources as well”. Training To combat this reality, Cinema Nosso created the program “Empowerment and Technology: Young Black Women in Audiovisual”, aimed at black, trans and indigenous women which, since 2019, has trained more than 100 young people for the sector. “We have always been working with peripheral youth and, in 2019, we were able to start (begin) the first edition of this project that helps us to further promote this training space for the insertion of black women in the market”. The program also includes non-binary people from all over Brazil. “The objective is to promote this training within the area of cinema, games and also writing scripts for series, in addition to collaborating with this insertion in the market, also promoting a project of life and employability. It will work not only on the professional side, helping to build curricula and portfolios, but also on the personal and social dimensions, what these women want as a goal for their lives in the audiovisual ecosystem”. The program puts the students in direct contact with professionals in the area in workshops and seminars, who guide and analyze the projects structured by them “They greatly strengthen the girls’ training process, understanding a lot of this mirroring, these references of professionals who are super talented and qualified to be in the area. And seeing themselves also in the talent of these professionals is important and gives them a boost to continue their journey in this area”. The year 2023 marks the fifth edition of the Empowerment and Technology: Young Black Women in Audiovisual program, which is entirely free and offers 150 script and directing jobs each year in the areas of script laboratory for series, fiction cinema, documentary cinema, digital games and mobile games (for cell phones). In 2024, the idea is to include one more training in the animation segment, said Gabriela Gonçalves. Enrollment opens between March and April of each year, and the course lasts six to eight months. International Day The first Meeting of Black, Latin and Caribbean Women was held in 1991, in Santos Domingos, Dominican Republic. Representatives from 32 nations gathered to discuss ways to combat inequalities and discrimination suffered by Latin and Caribbean black women in their respective countries. After this meeting, July 25 was recognized by the United Nations (UN) as the International Day of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women. In 2014, the date was sanctioned in Brazil by then President Dilma Roussef through Law 12,987, as part of the official national calendar.
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