Bio

Janaína Oliveira

Janaína Oliveira is a film programmer and scholar. She has a PhD in history and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Howard University. She is the head programmer of the Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Festival. In 2019 she programmed the “Soul in the Eye: Zózimo Bulbul’s Legacy and the Contemporary Emergence of Black Brazilian Cinema” series at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is the founder of the Black Cinema Itinerant Forum and the 2021 Flaherty Film Seminar programmer.