Portuguese Program Hosts Gabriela Watson and Free Documentary Screening

Gabriela Watson
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Gabriela Watson

Filmmaker and activist Gabriela Watson will be screening her documentary film titled "Baobab Flowers," at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, in the Arkansas Union Theater.

The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Portuguese Program in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences

Watson holds an M.F.A. in film and media arts with an emphasis in documentary arts and ethnographic practice from Temple University and a B.A. in communications, radio and TV from Faculdade Casper Libero, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Watson was a Fingerlakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) Fellow and a 2015 Flaherty Seminar Fellow, and was also awarded a Scholarship from Black Women Film Network (BWFN) in Atlanta. 

Watson's film, "Baobab Flowers," is a personal documentary that blends poetic and observational footage and follows the journey of two high school teachers in very different milieus: Storm Foreman in Philadelphia and Priscila Dias in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The film has been on the festival circuit and won the Audience Award for Favorite Documentary Short at BlackStar Film Festival 2017.

Edvan Brito, assistant professor of Portuguese, said the event will provide an opportunity for attendees to reflect on the issues of social and racial inequality in education from a global perspective.

"As we discuss the issues presented in the documentary, it will to be interesting to hear different opinions on how these issues relate to Arkansas," he said.

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