{"id":132,"date":"2022-09-18T04:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zozimo.vantoenfotografia.com\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2025-01-07T21:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:15:01","slug":"zozimo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zozimo.vantoenfotografia.com\/en\/zozimo\/","title":{"rendered":"Z\u00f3zimo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Z\u00d3ZIMO<\/b>\n
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the father of brazilian black cinema<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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JORGE<\/b>\n
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Rio de Janeiro, 1966. A military dictatorship took over the country, just 78 years after the abolition of slavery. A black child goes to the theater for the first time and watches an, also black, actor, shine on stage. Vantoen Pereira Jr watches his uncle Z\u00f3zimo Bulbul in the play \u201cMem\u00f3rias de um Sargento de Mil\u00edcias\u201d (\u201cMemoirs of a Police Sergeant\u201d) alongside a mainly black cast. Almost 50 years after, in 2013, while on his would-be death bed, Z\u00f3zimo asks Vantoen to take his picture. It is at that moment that his nephew realizes that he needs to tell his uncle\u2019s story: how Z\u00f3zimo Bulbul - born Jorge da Silva - forged his artistic path, being the first black main character in a Brazilian novela and becoming known as the \u201cfather of Brazilian black cinema\u201d.<\/span><\/p>

Z\u00f3zimo lived during several critical moments in Brazil\u2019s history. The military dictatorship, political persecution, exile, but also artistic movements like Cinema Novo and Bossa Nova. Z\u00f3zimo had an active role in these, sometimes as the only black person. He was in a novela as the main love interest in an interracial couple - something so revolutionary that it got censored -, was a high fashion model in a time when black beauty was not recognized, acted in staple movies of the Cinema Novo movement, and dared to direct his own movies, even if it meant using discarded film materials. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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