Viviane Ferreira

Viviane Ferreira is a Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer. She is also a lawyer and an activist of the Black movement and founder of Odun Filmes. She is also president and co-founder of the Brazilian Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals (APAN). Her film O Dia de Jerusa (2014), starring Léa Garcia, was shown at the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival. The short was transformed into the feature A Day With Jerusa (2020) and with it Viviane became only the second black woman to direct a fiction feature film in Brazil, the first being Adélia Sampaio.

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