Joel Zito Araújo has produced 29 award-winning documentaries, features and narrative shorts raising awareness to social issues in Brazil, particularly the nation’s Afro-Brazilian population. Among his impressive body of work, the highlights are his documentary Denying Brazil about the participation of black actors in Brazilian telenovelas, won Best Documentary at the It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival; his feature-length fiction film Daughters of the Wind, which brought together the largest black cast in the history of Brazilian cinema and won eight awards at the prestigious Gramado Film Festival; his documentary Cinderellas, Wolves, and One Enchanted Prince about sexual tourism and exploitation in Brazil, reached 3rd place in ratings at the premium cable channel GNT, with over 1.5 million viewers; and the documentary Raça a portrait of the racial debate in contemporary Brazil, co-directed with the Oscar winner filmmaker Megan Mylan, premiered in Brazil as Hors Concours at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival and was screened at 35 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano.
Brussels International Film Festival
