Juliana Vicente

Juliana Vicente de Freitas, also known as Juliana Vicente, is a Brazilian director and filmmaker. She is the founder of Preta Portê Filmes, a company founded in 2009 in São Paulo with the aim of developing audiovisual projects that combine art and communication for a diverse market. The filmmaker aims to make content of social and artistic relevance, creating new Afro-indigenous and LGBTQIA+ narratives. In 2015, she was invited as a director to participate in the Berlinale Talents and received the Camera D’Or award with the co-production A Terra e a Sombra, at the Cannes Festival. In the same year she was nominated for the Claudia Award in the Culture category, for her contribution to Brazilian cinema. He directed the Netflix series Afronta! and a year later he directed the 13th season of the series Espelho, by Lázaro Ramos. Later he also directed the documentary Cidade Correria – Um Bando de Artistas (2020) and Viva Nossa Voz. His other works are: Colors and Boots, a short film; the ...