Livia Perez

• Findings in the Closet: The Moving-Image Archive of Norma Bahia Pontes. STUDIES IN SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN CINEMAS. Intellect Books. Forthcoming (English)
• Encounters with Norma Bahia Pontes - Works, Displacements and Deliriums of a Brazilian Lesbian Feminist Filmmaker, Videomaker and Essayist. Media and Audiovisual Processes Program, University of Sao Paulo, 2022. Doctoral Dissertation. (Portuguese)
• Estrada da Vida (1952) and the Cinematográfica Terras do Brasil: The presence of women in Brazilian cinema in the early 1950s. ANIKI: REVISTA PORTUGUESA DA IMAGEM EM MOVIMENTO. v.9, p.229 - 257, 2022. (Portuguese)
• From Cinema Novo to Lesbian Feminist Video: The Trajectory of Norma Bahia Pontes, REBECA, v.18, jul-dec, 2020. (Portuguese)
• Book Review: Feminino e plural: Mulheres no cinema brasileiro (Female and Plural: Women on Brazilian Cinema), edited by Karla Holanda and Marina Cavalcanti Tedesco; Mulheres atrás das câmeras: As cineastas brasileiras de 1930 a 2018 (Women behind the Camera: Brazilian Filmmakers, 1930–2018), edited by Luiza Lusvarghi and Camila Vieira da Silva and Mulheres de cinema (Women of Cinema), edited by Karla Holanda, Film Quarterly, (2020) 74 (2): 122–125. (English)

Selected Exhibitions: 

• Frameline Film Festival, M is for Mothers, dir. by Livia Perez, 2023
• Sundance Film Festival, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here dir. by Erica Sarmet, 2022 (as executive producer)
• Havana Film Festival, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here dir. by Erica Sarmet, 2022 (as executive producer)
• New York Times Op-Docs, Carne dir. by Camila Kater, 2020 (as executive producer)
• IDFA,Carne dir. by Camila Kater, 2019 (as executive producer)
• TIFF, Carne dir. by Camila Kater, 2019 (as executive producer)
• Locarno Film Festival, Carne dir. by Camila Kater, 2019 (as executive producer)
• Visible Evidence, Who Killed Eloa? and Lampiao da Esquina, 2018
• LASA, Who Killed Eloa? dir. by Livia Perez, 2016.
• Hot Docs, Who Killed Eloa? dir. by Livia Perez, 2016.
• Alliance for Women in Media - SoCal, Who Killed Eloa? dir. by Livia Perez, 2016 
• It's All True, Lampiao da Esquina, dir. by Livia Perez, 2016
• DocsMX, Who Killed Eloa? dir. by Livia Perez, 2016. 
• IDFA, Who Killed Eloa?  dir. by Livia Perez, 2015.

Selected Presentations: 

• "Restoring Norma Bahia Pontes: Her Legacy from the Modern Brazilian Cinema to the Lesbian Feminist Video in the United States, LASA Congress, Latin America Studies Association, San Francisco, US, 2022
• “The New Brazilian Cinema”. Film Quarterly Webinar, 2021 https://filmquarterly.org/2021/01/29/webinar-the-new-brazilian-cinema/
• "LGBTIA+ Resistance in Brazil: From the Military Dictatorship to the Current Reactionary Wave", Brazilian Resistance to the Reactionary Wave Series, University of California, Santa Cruz, US, 2020
• "Media and Performativity", XXV Visible Evidence, University of Indiana, Bloomington, US, 2018

Awards and Honors:

• Best Dissertation Award for 2022 nomination at CAPES - Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education, USP – University of Sao Paulo and the Brazilian Society of Cinema and Audiovisual (awards to be announced in December 2023)
• Academy Awards Oscar® qualified for Best Short Documentary – Carne, 2021 
• CAPES Fellowship Visiting Scholar, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S., 2020.
• XXI Visible Evidence Fellowship for Filmmakers, University of Indiana, Bloomington, U.S., 2018
• CAPES Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Sao Paulo, Ministry of Education, Brazil, 2017-2021
• Best Short Documentary - 57th Annual Genii Awards, Women in Media Southern California (AWM SoCal), US, 2016
• Honorable Mention - MIX Brazil - 'Lampiao da Esquina' - Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2016.
• MAEC-AECID Fellowship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain, 2015
• ATLANTIDOC, Best Short ‘Who Killed Eloa?', Uruguay, 2015.