Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 14, 1914
Died
Mar 23, 2011
Place of Birth
Franca, São Paulo, Brazil
Credits
13 titles
Abdias Nascimento
Biography
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activist, who created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people's human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation.
Known For
Filmography
Othelo The Great
Self (archive footage)
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Self (archive footage)
Negro em Mim
Self (archive footage)
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Self
Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
Himself
Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra
Self
CINEMA NOIR
Ôrí
Self
Abolition
Himself
Fala Mangueira!
Self
Tribunal Bertha Lutz
Five Times Favela
(segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
O Homem do Sputnik
Chico