Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil (1986). Rodrigo Sousa has a Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Projection (UNIP), a postgraduate degree in Documentary Film (FGV) and Master's in Documentary Creation (EICTV-Cuba). He has made short films and video-poetry pieces that have been selected for several exhibitions. His first fictional feature, 'Um Salve Doutor', has been screened at several festivals, including the Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes and the Pachamama Festival - Brazil. He has participated in film festivals in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba. He lectures in Audiovisual Studies at the Jornalista Roberto Marinho Technical School (2011) and in Photographic Processes at the Technical School of Art (2019), and has collaborated with hundreds of short films and essays. He is a member of the APAN (Associação dos Profissionais do Audiovisual Negro), is Co-Founder of the Mundo em Foco Group (2004), Director of Super OFF – Festival Internacional de Cine Super 8 (2014), Co-Founder of the Experimental Film Lab La.birinto.Lab (2017) and Co-organiser of 1666 - Festival of 16mm (2019) and Postal - Mostra de Fotofilme, ViideoPoesia e VideoCarta (2020). He is currently making his first feature documentary 'Rastro', about the 1920s dance group 'Zumb’Boys'.
Last update of this profile: 2021
