Pablo Monteiro

Education
– Bachelor in History Maranhão State University, UEMA, 2016
– “Preamar. Banzeiro and Maresia”. Photography and video: lambe-lambe application and short documentary projection Banzeiro e Maresia. Chão SLZ, São Luís, Brazil, 2023 – “ENCHANTMENT, PAJELANCE AND PARENTING PRACTICE: the trajectory of Benedita Cadete.”
Group Exhibitions
2023
Film Festivals & Audiovisual Programs

He works collectively in the audiovisual production company BICHO D’ÁGUA FILMES, making and intermediating audiovisual contents from peripheral approaches, prioritizing black narratives. In his main roles, Pablo operates as Researcher, Screenwriter, Director, Director of Photography, Camera Operator & Editor. Director of the films: Quem passou primeiro foi São Benedito (2017), Princesa do meu lugar (2020) and Banzeiro e Maresia (2023). Director of Photography in “A nossa festa já vai começar” by Cadu Marques.

“Princesa do meu lugar”, 2020, 16’ minutes
2020
– 3rd Remígio Street Film Festival, Remígio, Brazil
– 15th Taguatinga Festival. Taguatinga, Brazil
– II Black Film Festival São Félix. São Felix, Brazil
– V Cine Tamoio São Gonçalo Film Festival. São Gonçalo, Brazil
– 43rd Guarnicê Film Festival. São Luís, MA
– 13th Zozimo Bulbul Black Film Festival. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– II Black Film Festival Zélia Amador de Deus, Belém, Brazil
– 2nd Recanto Festival of Cinema and Audiovisual on the Periphery, Brasília, Brazil
– 4th Pelotas Black Film Festival. Pelotas, Brazil
– II Black Film Festival Quilombo. Maceió, Brazil
– III Novo Cinema Maranhense, São Luís, Brazil
– II Ibitipoca Film Festival. Ibitipoca, Brazil
Awards
– Best Cinematography Direction: Pablo Monteiro for “Princesa do meu lugar”, 43rd Guarnicê Film Festival, São Luís, Brazil.
– Best film according to the Official Jury for “Princesa do meu lugar”, II Mostra de Cinema Negro, São Félix, Brazil.
2021
– 4th Itinerant Exhibition of Black Films, Mohamed Bamba (MIMB). Salvador, Brazil
– 14th Peripheral Visions. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– 6th Film Book Itinerant Exhibition: Cinema of the New World. Fortaleza, Brazil
– PERIFÉRICA, Camaragibe Film Festival, Camaragibe, Brazil
– IV Contemporary Film Festival of the Northeast of Brazil. Salvador, Brazil
– Cine Terreiro Festival, Natal, Brazil
– Mostra de Cinema Negro Itinerante, PILÃO. Paraíba, Brazil
– VII Favera Festival, Goiânia, Brazil
– Recife International Ethnographic Film Festival, FIFER, Recife, Brazil
– III Zélia Amador de Deus Black Film Festival, Belém, Brazil
– IV Mostra Sesc de Cinema. State Stage. São Luís, Brazil
– Belém Ethnographic Film Festival, Belém, Brazil
– III Documentary Journey, JED, Recife, Brazil
Awards
– SOUND – Performance, music, narrative. Film: Princess of my place, III Documentary Studies Journey (JED).
– BEST DIRECTION SHOW? É NOIS BRASIL? Film: Princess of my place, VII FAVERA DIGITAL EDITION.
2022
– VII Egbé Black Film Festival, Aracajú, Brazil
– III Black Audiovisual Week, Recife, Brazil
– I Samburá Festival, São Gonçalo, Brazil
– II Black Film Week, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– II Meeting of Image Anthropology UFMA, São Luís, Brazil
– III Mostra Latno-americana de filmes etnográficos, NAVIS. Natal, Brazil
– III Cine Terreiro (invited). Natal, Brazil
Other exhibitions
– The work makes up the Todesplay APAN film catalog, 2021.
– Virtual programming Centro de Cultura Banco do Nordeste do Cariri, Brazil, 2022.
– On-site program Mostra Retumbão de Documentário da Cultura Popular, Belém, Brazil, 2022.
“Corpografias do Pixo”, 2019, 8’ minutes
2019
– TO THE NORDESTE. Sesc May 25. São Paulo, Brazil
– 15th Verbo performance art show. São Paulo, Brazil
– Show 71 Interference. Salvador – Brazil
2020
– Exhibition FARSA. Sesc Pompéia. São Paulo, Brazil
“De nascença”, 2018, 7’minutos
2022
– Culture Scapes, Basel, Switzerland, 2021.
“Quem passou primeiro foi São Benedito”, 2016, 15’minutes
2016
– I Meeting of Anthropology and Image at UFMA. São Luís, Brazil
Prêmios
– Best Ethnographic Film. Meeting of Anthropology and Image of UFMA. São Luís, Brazil
2017
– 6th Maranhão on Screen. São Luís, Brazil
– Mostra Sesc de Cinema. State Selective. São Luís, Brazil
– 1st Para Ethnographic Film Festival. Visagem Group PPGSA, Belém, Brazil
– Recife Ethnographic Film Festival (FIFER), Recife, Brazil
Prêmios
– Special Jury Award for. Maranhão on Screen. São Luís, Brazil.
2018
– 13ª Festival Taguatinga de cinema, Taguatinga, Brazil
– Mostra Cornélia Eckert de Filmes Etnográficos, Bragança, Brazil
Awards
– I Cornelia Eckert Ethnographic Film Award for “Quem passou primeiro foi São Benedito”, I INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR LINGUAGENS, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIODIVERSITY IN THE AMAZON BRAGANCE-UFPA.
Publications
2017
– The midwife is also a mother: the trajectory of the pajoa Benedita Cadete. In: Marcia Milena Galdez Ferreira; Marilande Martins Abreu. (Org.). Culture, religious phenomena and worlds of work in the present time. 01ed.São Luís: EDUEMA
– To São Benedito. Visagem Magazine, Belém – PA, p. 225 – 231, 21 jul. 2017.
– ‘Stop, look and listen’. Visagem Magazine, Belém – PA, p. 286 – 288, 21 jul. 2017.
– Pra não lembrar dos tempos de cativeiro. Revista Eletrônica Visagem, Belém do Pará, p. 08 – 14, 13 Jan. 2017.
2018
– Life as a party. A festa da vida: a casa de Benedita Cadete e a Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Guia. In: Henrique Borralho; Francisco Valdério; Milena Galdez. (Org). Historiographies and Languages. 1 ed. São Luís: Editora UEMA.
Awards in general
– Prize for Photo-Essay – I ENCONTRO DE ANTROPOLOGIA E IMAGEM DA UFMA, UFMA.
– Best series. Red Flag. III Arthur Napoleão Figueiredo Photography Award, EAVAAM (UFPA). Belém, Brazil, 2018.
– Free Theme Competition Award. Film: A crôa de Rei Sebastião. Festival no Minuto, São Paulo, Brazil, 2021.
– Best Cinematography Direction Mostra Primeiros Passos. Film: Our party is about to begin. Directed by Cadu Marques. 16th Curta Taquary, 2022.
– Honorable Mention for photography. Maria de Andrade ethnographic photography award. National Folklore Center and IPHAN, 2022
– II Prêmio de Fotografia Arthur Napoleão Figueiredo, EAVAAM (UFPA).
Lectures, Talks, Workshops & Courses
– Listening to tell: possibilities for a documentary writing. Short course. I Mostra Piranhão de Cinema. Production LABCINE. Teresina, Brazil, 2023.
– Time and Space: possibilities for the construction of a documentary writing. Short course. I Festival de Cinema da Ilha. Chão de Cozinha production. São Luís, 2022.
– The time of the party. 2nd Mostra de Art 120 de Videoarte (oline). Short course. Production CCVM, Centro de Cultura Vale Maranhão, 2021.
– Regional and Cultural Reality: audiovisual and ancestrality. Discipline “Regional Reality”, Faculty of Information and Communication. Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM). Conversation (online). Manaus, Brazil, 2021.
– Photography and audiovisuals as tools of memory construction. Master CLASS, About Tatame LAB. Short course. São Luís, Brazil, 2021.
– Dialogues and visualities in documentary: who went first was São Benedito. GPMINA Seminar, Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA). São Luís, Brazil, 2017.