Lands That Release/Terras Que Libertam- Special Screening

Join us for a screening of the documentary film “Lands That Release: Stories of the Cupertinos” co-sponsored by the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements & Population Health Equity at Drexel University. The screening will be followed by a conversation about land-based resistance struggles in Brazil with Diosmar Filho, co-director and producer of the film, and Dr. Ashley Gripper, faculty at the Ubuntu Center.

About the Film

Lands That Release/Terras Que Libertam documents the trajectory of the Black Quilombola population living in Chapada Diamantina (Bahia-Brazil), a freedom movement led by brothers Júlio Cupertino and Jaime Cupertino, insurgents in black conscience living in the ancestral quilombola lands of the Caatinga. The documentary reveals the modern quilombola struggle for territorial and social rights, the defense of the Quilombola Territory of Vazante against the Baraúnas Dam, and the freedom of the warrior Júlio Cupertino – ancestor in the Territory of Baixão Velho. The film is 55 minutes with English subtitles.

Filmmaker’s Biography-

Diosmar Filho is a Senior Researcher and Scientific Coordinator at the Iyaleta Research Association – Research, Sciences and Humanities (Bahia, Brazil), a Geographer, and a doctoral student at Fluminense Federal University in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He is also the co-director and producer of the documentary Lands That Release/Terras Que Libertam, which documents the trajectory of the black quilombola population in Chapada Diamantina (Bahia-Brazil). Diosmar previously served as professor and academic coordinator of the Lato Sensu Specialization in State and Law of Traditional Peoples and Communities and the Lato Sensu Specialization in Human Rights and Contemporaneity – UFBA/UAB/CAPES. He holds a Master’s in Geography from the Federal University of Bahia and is an Associate Researcher at the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers (ABPN).