About the Periphery
The Periférica Film Festival, a bold initiative by producers and filmmakers from Camaragibe, Pernambuco, aims to promote audiovisual production in the city, state, and country, with a special focus on productions that emerge from the peripheries of the system. The festival seeks to give visibility to marginalized spaces and bodies, also connecting with productions from the Global South. The third edition of Periférica, held online in 2021, screened 62 short films from 18 Brazilian states and four Latin American countries, in addition to promoting workshops and debates. The program included screenings dedicated to films by black, indigenous, LGBTQAI+, and women filmmakers, demonstrating a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. The festival also seeks to educate audiences and create a new critical perception of different cultures.
Periférica acts as an agent of cultural, social and economic transformation, giving voice and visibility to independent productions that often do not find space in traditional circuits. By doing so, the show generates employment and income directly and indirectly, positively impacting the lives of the people and communities involved. The initiative seeks to include the peripheries in the production networks in a fair and leading way.
The Mostra Periférica de Cinema is a concrete example of how cultural initiatives can catalyze local development, offering opportunities for talents from the outskirts of cities to connect with the audiovisual world and generate an impact in their communities.
About the Periphery
2017
The 1st Camaragibe Film Festival took place on June 17th and 18th, 2017, in the city of Camaragibe/PE, at the Cine Teatro Bianor Mendonça Monteiro. We showed films produced in the city of Camaragibe and short films that dialogue with the outskirts and the daily life of the community.
2019
(Tribute to Josenita Duda)
The 2nd Camaragibe Film Festival took place between August 26 and September 1, 2019, in the city of Camaragibe/PE, and marks the reopening of the Bianor Mendonça Monteiro Cinema Theater. In honor of Josenita Duda, the festival introduced the LGBTQI+ theme to the show. We screened 46 films from all over Brazil, including 43 short films and 3 feature films.
2021/22
(Tribute to Dona Dora of Boi Rubro Negro)
The 3rd Camaragibe Film Festival took place between March 23 and 28, 2021, in honor of Dona Dora and the Boi Rubro Negro, during the pandemic and in an online format. We screened 62 short films from 18 Brazilian states and 4 Latin American countries (Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Argentina), 4 feature films and held 3 workshops during the festival.
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2025
(Tribute to the Tapestry Makers of Camaragibe and Jeff Juriti)
The 4th Camaragibe Film Festival will take place from September 18 to 21, 2025, in honor of the Tapeceiras de Camaragibe and Jeff Juriti, in the city of Camaragibe/PE, in several spaces in the city, and in an online format. We are accepting submissions for short and feature films from Brazil, Latin America and, new, other countries in the Global South, in addition to holding workshops and a peripheral cultural entrepreneurship fair during the festival.
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