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Name: Renaya Dorea
Area of work: Directing, Screenwriting, Production, Research
Edition: 2023
City: Cabo Frio
State: Rio de Janeiro
City of origin: Rio de Janeiro
E-mail: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renata-dorea-35a2631b6/

Afro-indigenous multidisciplinary artivist. Born in Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro in the 90s, graduated from the Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts and Design (UFJF) and Photography expanded by EAV Parque Lage. Student at the Escuela Internacional de Cine and TV. San Antonio de Los Baños (Cuba) in the regular course in the Specialization in Television and New Audiovisual Narratives. She works with visual art, Cinema, Illustration, Urban Art and Design through the self-representation of Afro-Latina women in multiple languages. Member of APAN and co-founder of Coletivo Descolonia. Director of the documentary Afrodites (2016), the short Suellen e a Diáspora Periférica (2020, itaú cultural arte como respiro award), the experimental short Patuá (Cuba, 2022) and part of the team of directors of the series Lugar de Fala. Curator of national experimental films and the Latin American panorama of the 16th Zózimo Bulbul Black Cinema Meeting, in 2023 she was one of the 150 Afro-Brazilian Artists with an audiovisual trajectory recognized by the Premio Pretas Potencias, a partnership between Pretahub and the Ministry of Culture, Banco BV, BASF, Ernst & Young and Mercado Livre. He has already carried out Visual Arts and Illustration projects for Netflix Brasil, Facebook Business América Latina, Blogueiras Negras, Instituto Afrolatinas, Folha de São Paulo, Revista Marie Claire, Editora Saraiva, Instituto Natura, Instituto C & A, Editora Mol, and others.

Renaya was awarded a fellowship to attend the Filma AFRO 2023 laboratory, in Colombia.