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Registration for the PUB scholarship "LISA's film collection: subtitling and accessibility", aimed at USP undergraduate students, is open at the link https://uspdigital.usp.br/juno until 18/08.
The scholarship recipient will have 40 hours of contact per month with video subtitling of works, especially the inclusion of subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (LSE). The scholarship holder will also work with subtitling in other languages, thus contributing to the internationalization of the unit, in addition to the accessibility that LSE brings. Some of the laboratory's video work is available at https://lisa.fflch.usp.br/videos.
The scholarship holder is expected to have basic knowledge of computers and audio and video production programs, as well as basic knowledge of language, narrative and audiovisual aesthetics."
Lia Malcher, researcher of the PAM research group and Kelwin Marques Garcia dos Santos, researcher of the GRAVI and PAM groups, were awarded at the Pierre Verger Award!
The film Jijet - Como estudiamos nossos cantos, by Lia Malcher and Hugo Prudente and the photo essay De palha e de ouro, by Kelwin Marques Garcia dos Santos received honorable mention in the exhibition.
More details at https://premiopierreverger.com/2024/premiados/
Check out the ranking:
1st Place Medium-length film:
Uma Mulher Common (Directed by: Debora Diniz)
2nd Place, medium-length film:
ZUMVI Collection - The Rising of Memory (Directed by: Iris de Oliveira);
3rd Place, medium-length film:
I Am Modern, I Am Indian (Directed by: Carlos Eduardo Magalhães)
Honorable Mention:
Jijet - How we study our songs (Directed by: Hugo Prudente and Lia Malcher)
Photography:
1st Place:
Mirrors of memory: archive images and…
The USP newspaper did an article about the 50 years of USP by the coordinator and founder of LISA, Sylvia Caiuby Novaes.
Check it out at https://jornal.usp.br/ articles/sylvia-caiuby-novaes-50-anos-de-usp/
“Jornal da USP” published an article promoting the premiere of the film "São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana", by directors Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji. The article features interviews with the directors and protagonists, presenting the idea behind the film's conception.
The exhibition will take place on April 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the Carlos Reichenbach room at Centro Universitário Maria Antonia - Rua Maria Antônia, 294.
Free entrance!
Link to the article: https://jornal.usp.br/diversidade/artistas-africanos-conquistam-espaco-em-sao-palco-a-cidade-afropolitana/
Folha de S.Paulo magazine publishes an article honoring the teacher's 50-year career Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, founder and coordinator of LISA.
The article addresses the dilemma between motherhood and work, using Sylvia's history, which shows that, in order to reconcile both areas, she decided to bring her daughters along with her during the field research among the Bororo.
The article also talks about her trajectory as a researcher and a teacher, besides presenting LISA's history too.
Access the article here.
Photography: Zanone Fraissat/Folhapress
The eighth volume of GIS - Gesto, Imagem e Som - Journal of Anthropology of the University of São Paulo is now live.
We invite you to visit the GIS website and learn about the articles, essays, review, translation and interview published in this volume, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/gis/issue/view/12652.
Happy reading!
Afro-Sampas, produced at LISA and directed by Rose Satiko and Jasper Chalcraft, is at a festival in Palermo, Italy.
More information at this link
The film Afrosampas, by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft, and directed by LISA was ranked 3rd in the Ethnographic Film - Medium Film category. In Afrosampas we observe what can happen when musicians from both sides of the Atlantic are brought into contact in the city where they live. Yannick Delass (DRC), Edoh Fiho (Togo), Lenna Bahule (Mozambique) and Brazilians Ari Colares, Chico Saraiva and Meno del Picchia accept our invitation for a first meeting in which they experience sounds, memories and creativity.
In addition, the film Carlos Caps Drag Race and the short Cybershota, by Mihai Andrei Leaha, received 1st and 2nd place, respectively, in the categories Ethnographic Film - Medium Film and Ethnographic Film - Short Film. Both works also received support from LISA. In Carlos Caps Drag Race, three Brazilian drag queens prepare for a Drag Race in São Paulo. While getting ready for the show, Satine, Di Vina Kaskaria and Gabeeh Brasil share how the…
The documentary “Weaving our paths”, a short film completed at LISA-USP in 2019, won an honorable mention at GIEFF 2022, translation of “Germany International Ethnographic Film Festival”, which took place in the German city of Göttingen. The film is directed by researchers Marta Tipuici Manoki, a master's student in the graduate program in social anthropology at USP, and produced by André Lopes, a doctoral student in the same program, both under the guidance of Professor Renato Sztutman. The two researchers in the field of visual anthropology and indigenous ethnology have a long collaboration and have already worked on other documentaries produced by the Coletivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki e Mỹky, formed by young filmmakers from both peoples, and of which they are part.
The film addresses the relationship of young Manoki with their indigenous language, which belongs to an isolated linguistic family. Currently only four elders speak their language, an imminent risk of…
The seventh volume of GIS - Gesto, Imagem e Som - Journal of Anthropology of the University of São Paulo is now live.
We invite you to visit the GIS website and learn about the articles, essays, review, translation and interview published in this volume, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/gis/issue/view/12129. In addition, the volume 7 brings a tribute to Patrícia Monte-Mór, who left us at the beginning of 2022.
Happy reading!