"Personal Vivator" (2014) by Sabrina Fidalgo, imagined an alien visiting Rio de Janeiro to study the inequality between races and classes. "Chico" (2016) by the Carvalho brothers imagines a Brazil in 2029 in which every black child is expected to become a criminal, and therefore enters prison at a young age. I was always Afrofuturistic without knowing the term existedĪccording to Freitas, Afro-Brazilian short-film directors are also producing Afrofuturistic films that critically examine Brazilian society. Since then the word Afrofuturism has become much more common in Brazil and people continue to stumble across the film festival online, often reaching out to Freitas for more info. She also noticed that the festival attracted large amounts of black people, an uncommon sight in Brazil's large cultural centers where the festival occurred. "They wanted to get to know it and be closer to it. "The audience didn't know what was Afrofuturismo," Freitas said, who had just discovered the philosophy a few years prior. All of the films hailed from the African diaspora and presented the stories about black people's past, present, and future in a fantasy and alternative way. In 2015 she produced and curated a film festival in São Paulo called "Mostra Afrofuturismo: Cinema e Música em uma Diáspora Intergaláctica" (AfroFuturism Showing: Cinema and Music in an Intergalactic Diaspora). Kênia Freitas was one of the first Afro-Brazilians to embrace the term and promote the philosophy. Many of the Afro-Brazilians who embrace Afrofuturism today didn't even know it existed three years ago. "I was always Afrofuturistic without knowing the term existed," she wrote in her book. Thus, Afro-Brazilians are using Afrofuturism to imagine a future more empowered than what even they would call a second-class reality.Īccording to Ytasha Womack, author of the book, "Afro-Futurism, the World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture," people can live their entire lives embracing the concepts of Afrofuturism without knowing the term.
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