Abdias Nascimento
Date of birth: 1914-03-14
Place of birth: Franca, São Paulo, Brazil
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Abdias Nascimento, Abdias do Nascimento
Biography
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activist, who created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people's human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation.
Movie Credits
Othelo The Great
2024-09-05
A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreakin
Negro em Mim
2020-10-19
"Negro em Mim" is an investigative documentary with black artists and thinkers in Brazil today. A po
Five Times Favela
1962-11-20
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
CINEMA NOIR
2004-12-01
In the set of a cine-biography featuring his own life & legacy, ABDIAS NASCIMENTO (aged 89) discusse
Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra
2008-01-02
The life of Abdias Nascimento, a prominent black activist born in 1914, whose contribution and polit
The Man of The Sputnik
1959-08-21
An UFO that could be the Russian satellite Sputnik falls on a hillbilly's hencoop.
Abolition
1988-05-13
In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historica
Fala Mangueira!
1983-01-01
A documentary on the influence that carnival has on the daily life of the Mangueira hill in Rio de J
Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
2017-10-18
The African deity that brought in Brazil Together with the blacks, Exu is known as the orixá of comm
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020-09-11
Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and
Ôrí
1989-05-02
A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Braz
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
2020-12-08
Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activi
Tribunal Bertha Lutz
1982-01-01