Lecturer, Film and Digital Media
Research Interests:
Latin American Cinema, Latinx Media History, Transnational Film, Diasporic Media Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Global Media Studies, Feminist Filmmaking, Feminist Media Practices, Decolonial Theory, Feminist and Queer Historiography, Media Preservation, Film Archives, Media Archeology.
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Selected Publications:
- 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.
Education and Training:
Ph.D., University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
M.F.A., University of California, Santa Cruz (United States)
B.A., M.A., State University of Campinas (Brazil)
Biography:
Dr. Livia Perez (she/her/ela) is a Brazilian media scholar and filmmaker. Her moving-image practice and research span non-fiction media, Latinx, feminist and queer media history, visual memory, diasporic media history, transnational film, and multimedia. She received an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. from the University of Sao Paulo. The films she directed and produced have been screened at Sundance, Locarno, Havana, IDFA, Frameline, Havana, It’s All True and Hot Docs. She is member of the Red de investigación del Audiovisual hecho por Mujeres en América Latina, or RAMA, the research network on audiovisual creation by women in Latin America and member of the Brazilian Filmmakers Collective (BRFC).
Teaching Interests:
Teaching Fall Quarter 2023 - FILM 168, National Cinema and Culture: Latin America
Teaching Spring Quarter 2024 - FILM 194D, Film History Seminar, and FILM Graduate Elective