Por um cinema todo delas: um panorama da participação da mulher em mostras e festivais do audiovisual alagoano

Abstract

Considering that cinema still reflects gender inequality, which is also found in several other sectors of society, the present dissertation sought to build a panorama of the participation of the women of Alagoas in local cinematography. The corpus, here, is strictly composed of 68 works that contain women in the position of director, all of which have been part, until 2018, on the editions of Festival de Cinema Universitário de Alagoas and Festival do Cinema Brasileiro - both from the Circuito Penedo de Cinema -, and also of Mostra Sururu de Cinema Alagoano and Mostra Sesc de Cinema. From these, which are the main events related to filmmaking in the state, it is possible to have a sample of the dynamics of Alagoas’ cinematography and how women have been producing inside of it. In this research, the collected information was studied using Laurence Bardin’s methodology, “Content Analysis”. To understand how gender issues impact film production, we used concepts from authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Laura Mulvey, Naomi Wolf, and Teresa de Lauretis. Elinaldo Barros' studies, in turn, were recalled so that it was possible to portray how the seventh art was developed in the state. The results show that, despite the advances regarding the cinematic production in Alagoas, there is not even gender parity in the participation of men's and women's works in local festivals and exhibitions.