Film Matters has been using its quarantine time wisely this past year, expanding the breadth and reach of our operations and adding – in the process – several new editor positions: Community College Editor (Michael Benton, Bluegrass Community & Technical College, USA), Online Editor (Kristi McKim, Hendrix College, USA), and Special Issues Editor (Kelli Fuery, Chapman University, USA). We are pleased to announce the latest appointment, effective January 1, 2021: Pedro Afonso Branco Ramos Pinto (University of Brasília, Brazil) as our Videographic Essay Editor.
Pedro is a Brazilian filmmaker with over a decade of experience crafting documentary and experimental films that sit at the intersection of artistic craftsmanship, social science scholarship, and public advocacy. One of the films he scripted/edited received the Workers of the World Award at the 2017 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival on the basis of “the innovativeness with which it approaches a theme related to labour.” He has also scripted/edited the two latest recipients of the most prestigious accolade in Brazilian visual anthropology –the Pierre Verger Prize, which is conferred by the Brazilian Anthropological Association. A founding member of (and an Associate Consultant at) the University of Brasilia’s Laboratory of Image and Recording of Social Interactions (IRIS) – which has been officially recognized by CAPES, the Brazilian governmental agency responsible for regulating and evaluating higher education, as having developed the best body of audiovisual work among national social science graduate programs in 2013 (relative to the 2010–2012 period) and again in 2017 (relative to the 2013–2016 period), Pedro currently serves at the Board of Directors of Remix←→Culture, a NYC-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization celebrating musical traditions in harmony with digital remix art.
We are thrilled to be working with Pedro, especially given his plans to distribute a call for videos in Portuguese, mostly to Portuguese and Brazilian universities (Mozambique as well), in Spanish across Latin American countries and Spain, in French across France and west African countries, and in English basically everywhere else (mostly US, UK, China, Hong Kong and east Asia in general).
Keep your eyes out for Pedro’s call for videos in early 2021. In the meantime, please join us in welcoming him to the Film Matters team.
