Maxwell Innis II, is a writer & director born and raised in the state of Maryland in America. He graduated from Ithaca College with a BFA in 2018 and relocated to Los Angeles the same year. Since then he has worked in the film industry in a variety of ways, from directing short films and music videos, working in the props department at Nickelodeon, to driving wardrobe trucks for commercial shoots. He currently is a coordinator for Caviar films LA.
Originally from New Orleans, Christopher Stoudt is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. In 2018 he was nominated for a Los Angeles Emmy for Outstanding Director for his full-length documentary, Lost LA: Descanso Gardens. His short The Black Rebel was a Vimeo Staff Pick in 2019. His latest documentary short, Camp ALEC, was produced by The Kennedy/Marshall Company and acquired by Disney+ for the forthcoming revival of their series “People and Places.” His film Four Seasons Total Documentary, which profiles the infamous Philadelphia press conference, premiered on MSNBC and was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award. He is currently in development on his first feature with Vox Media.
Jason Boussioux is a French director. After cinema studies in Cannes and Paris at the Sorbonne University he entered the ENS Louis-Lumière to be trained as a director of photography. Drawing his stories from the imagery of the night, he always makes a point to stage strong images with very rich visuals, bold lighting and immersive sound design. Passionate about classical music and jazz, he often writes stories in which music has an important role to play and with characters driven by a melancholic existential crisis. Influenced by the cinema of Damien Chazelle, David Lynch, Terrence Malick and Wong Kar-wai, his favorite genres are neo-noir, musical and surrealist films.
Sebastian has over fifteen years of experience creating high-profile work for the likes of Amazon, Citroen, Sony and Viacom. He has worked across a wide range of video projects leading creative teams and working hands-on as a producer, director and editor. Currently producing commercial, corporate and independent films in New York City.
Gil Alves, is Brazilian filmmaker and Director, graduated in Audiovisual Production (Jorge Amado University) and dance (FUNCEB), acts as artistic and creative director of shows and festivals, including: Afro Fashion Day, YouTube Black Voices Award and Afropunk Bahia Festival.
One of the selected directors for Dance Film Lab 3 (Dance Films Association NYC 2023), with his last project: Gratitude my father, Obaluaê, for which he was the screenwriter, director and performer, received festival awards in Brazil, West Africa, Europe and USA.
Born in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, Alexandre Maciel, 36 years old, has an academic background in Advertising and Public Relations and was recently accepted by the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC - RJ) to pursue a master's degree in art and design. He works as director and director of photography together with major players such as NETFLIX, GLOBO, DISNEY in addition to investing and producing diversity, equity and inclusion content.
_"Travessia" is a contemporary dance performance that revives the Black diaspora, from the horrors of the water-covered dungeon - the slave ship - drifting through to the present day. It has been 134 years of freedom, but Black people are still chained to many shackles in Brazil. The Black, poor, and favela-dwelling people are the concrete result of the Brazilian structural racism, fostered day after day for years of injustice and non-reparations. Permeated by poetry and video art, the performance presents phases of the African population's trajectory since their arrival in Brazil, in the water-covered dungeons of slave ships, to the contemporaneity of Afro-descendants and the false idea of freedom that runs through their existences. "Travessia" is a cry of lament, a deafening noise, a danced illustration of an important part of our people's untold history. Chains and lashes live within us, seas and oceans run through our veins. Tears mix with salt water, and no one hears us. There is no help from here. We have lost ourselves in inhumanity, we have lost ourselves from God. Here in my heart, there is the longing for my motherland. I carefully guard the entity that lives in this cheapened flesh, in the memory of where I came from and what we were - Kings and Queens. Website
- YearJune 17, 2023
- Runtime14:57
- LanguagePortuguese
- CountryBrazil
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- Social Media
- DirectorALEXANDRE MACIEL
- ScreenwriterWALLACE SOUZA
- Executive ProducerNÓS DOIS PRODUÇÒES
- FilmmakerALEXANDRE MACIEL
- CastAndressa Araujo Claryssa Reis Juliana Angelo Rafi Sousa Rebeca Barboza Davison César Diego Nascimento Fagner Santos Felipe Nascimento Julio Cesar Manhães
- CinematographerALEXANDRE MACIEL
- ComposerWilliam Ocanha
Maxwell Innis II, is a writer & director born and raised in the state of Maryland in America. He graduated from Ithaca College with a BFA in 2018 and relocated to Los Angeles the same year. Since then he has worked in the film industry in a variety of ways, from directing short films and music videos, working in the props department at Nickelodeon, to driving wardrobe trucks for commercial shoots. He currently is a coordinator for Caviar films LA.
Originally from New Orleans, Christopher Stoudt is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. In 2018 he was nominated for a Los Angeles Emmy for Outstanding Director for his full-length documentary, Lost LA: Descanso Gardens. His short The Black Rebel was a Vimeo Staff Pick in 2019. His latest documentary short, Camp ALEC, was produced by The Kennedy/Marshall Company and acquired by Disney+ for the forthcoming revival of their series “People and Places.” His film Four Seasons Total Documentary, which profiles the infamous Philadelphia press conference, premiered on MSNBC and was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award. He is currently in development on his first feature with Vox Media.
Jason Boussioux is a French director. After cinema studies in Cannes and Paris at the Sorbonne University he entered the ENS Louis-Lumière to be trained as a director of photography. Drawing his stories from the imagery of the night, he always makes a point to stage strong images with very rich visuals, bold lighting and immersive sound design. Passionate about classical music and jazz, he often writes stories in which music has an important role to play and with characters driven by a melancholic existential crisis. Influenced by the cinema of Damien Chazelle, David Lynch, Terrence Malick and Wong Kar-wai, his favorite genres are neo-noir, musical and surrealist films.
Sebastian has over fifteen years of experience creating high-profile work for the likes of Amazon, Citroen, Sony and Viacom. He has worked across a wide range of video projects leading creative teams and working hands-on as a producer, director and editor. Currently producing commercial, corporate and independent films in New York City.
Gil Alves, is Brazilian filmmaker and Director, graduated in Audiovisual Production (Jorge Amado University) and dance (FUNCEB), acts as artistic and creative director of shows and festivals, including: Afro Fashion Day, YouTube Black Voices Award and Afropunk Bahia Festival.
One of the selected directors for Dance Film Lab 3 (Dance Films Association NYC 2023), with his last project: Gratitude my father, Obaluaê, for which he was the screenwriter, director and performer, received festival awards in Brazil, West Africa, Europe and USA.
Born in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, Alexandre Maciel, 36 years old, has an academic background in Advertising and Public Relations and was recently accepted by the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC - RJ) to pursue a master's degree in art and design. He works as director and director of photography together with major players such as NETFLIX, GLOBO, DISNEY in addition to investing and producing diversity, equity and inclusion content.
_"Travessia" is a contemporary dance performance that revives the Black diaspora, from the horrors of the water-covered dungeon - the slave ship - drifting through to the present day. It has been 134 years of freedom, but Black people are still chained to many shackles in Brazil. The Black, poor, and favela-dwelling people are the concrete result of the Brazilian structural racism, fostered day after day for years of injustice and non-reparations. Permeated by poetry and video art, the performance presents phases of the African population's trajectory since their arrival in Brazil, in the water-covered dungeons of slave ships, to the contemporaneity of Afro-descendants and the false idea of freedom that runs through their existences. "Travessia" is a cry of lament, a deafening noise, a danced illustration of an important part of our people's untold history. Chains and lashes live within us, seas and oceans run through our veins. Tears mix with salt water, and no one hears us. There is no help from here. We have lost ourselves in inhumanity, we have lost ourselves from God. Here in my heart, there is the longing for my motherland. I carefully guard the entity that lives in this cheapened flesh, in the memory of where I came from and what we were - Kings and Queens. Website
- YearJune 17, 2023
- Runtime14:57
- LanguagePortuguese
- CountryBrazil
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- Social Media
- DirectorALEXANDRE MACIEL
- ScreenwriterWALLACE SOUZA
- Executive ProducerNÓS DOIS PRODUÇÒES
- FilmmakerALEXANDRE MACIEL
- CastAndressa Araujo Claryssa Reis Juliana Angelo Rafi Sousa Rebeca Barboza Davison César Diego Nascimento Fagner Santos Felipe Nascimento Julio Cesar Manhães
- CinematographerALEXANDRE MACIEL
- ComposerWilliam Ocanha
