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Born in Sonaco, Guinea-Bissau, Marinho de Pina is a storyteller who uses different formats: music, film, writing, poetry, dance, performance and architecture. As a performer, he has worked in various spaces throughout Portugal and beyond. Since 2017, he has been working with the Mediateca Abotcha project (Guinea-Bissau), in a programme of cultural creation of dreams and utopias with local communities, which aims to horizontalise knowledge. Recently, the film Ressonância em Espiral (Resonance in a Spiral), which he made in collaboration with Filipa César, was shown at the Berlinale in Berlin, DocFortnight MoMA in New York and Cinema du Réel - Centre Pompidou in Paris, where it was awarded the Libraries Prize sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture.

A multidisciplinary artist, Isabél Zuaa was born in Lisbon and has origins in Guinea-Bissau and Angola. Her artistic research focuses on dramaturgies in which black people are the protagonists and hosts of their own narratives and on mapping invisibilised biographies.

She trained in acting at Chapitô, Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and Unirio. Since 2010, she has worked in theatre, film, television and performance, developing projects in Portugal, Brazil and Italy.

In 2019, she founded the Aurora Negra collective, together with Cleo Diára and Nádia Yracema. The group debuted with Aurora Negra (2020), followed by COSMOS (2022) and Missão da Missão (2023) . They also created the KILOMBO Festival, the first edition of which took place at Espaço Alkantara (2021) and the second at the São Luiz Theatre (2023), in partnership with the Alkantara Festival. Isabél is a co-founder of UNA - União Negra das Artes.

In film festivals, in 2023 she won the Best Supporting Actress award at Cineuphoria (Pedro's Journey); in 2022 she won the Guarani Award for Best Actress (A Yellow Animal); in 2020 she won the Best Actress award at the Gramado Festival (A Yellow Animal and for the film Deserto Estrangeiro). She has also won honourable mentions at the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival and awards at festivals such as Sitges, Zinegoak and Fest Aruanda.

Isabél Zuaa is a multidisciplinary artist born in Lisbon, with origins in Guinea-Bissau and Angola. Her artistic research focuses on dramaturgies in which black people are the protagonists and hosts of their own narratives, and on mapping invisible biographies.

She studied acting at Chapitô, Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and Unirio. Since 2010, she has been working in theatre, film, television and performance, developing projects in Portugal, Brazil and Italy.

In 2019 she founded the collective Aurora Negra, together with Cleo Diára and Nádia Yracema. The group debuted with Aurora Negra (2020), followed by COSMOS (2022) and Missão da Missão (2023). They also created the KILOMBO Festival, the first edition of which was held at the Espaço Alkantara (2021) and the second at the São Luiz Theatre (2023), in partnership with the Alkantara Festival. Isabél is co-founder of UNA - União Negra das Artes.

At film festivals, she won the Best Supporting Actress award at Cineuphoria in 2023 (Pedro's Journey); the Guarani Award for Best Actress in 2022 (A Yellow Animal); the Best Actress award at the Gramado Festival in 2020 (A Yellow Animal and for the film Deserto Estrangeiro). She has also received honourable mentions at the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival and prizes at festivals such as Sitges, Zinegoak and Fest Aruanda.

Mauro Hermínio is a Portuguese actor of Mozambican origin whose career spans theatre, film and television, combined with a strong activism for black representation. He graduated from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and also studied at the Impetus Actors School and the Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Artes in Lisbon. In television, he stood out in productions such as 'A Única Mulher' (TVI) and 'Vidas Opostas' (SIC). In cinema, he is known for films such as Mutant Blast (2018), Frágil (2019) and Ruth (2018), by António Pinhão Botelho. In the theatre, he has shown his versatility in plays such as 'Sweet Bird of Youth' (2015), by Tennessee Williams, directed by Jorge Silva Melo, and 'Imperatore 2.0' (2018), by Pedro Sousa Loureiro. He also wrote and performed the monologue 'Noman' (2014). He participated in the play 'Negros' with the GRIOT company, directed by Rogério Carvalho, which explores the experience of being black in a predominantly white country.
 

Henrique J Paris is a London-based artist-researcher dissecting philosophical, scenographic and architectonic frameworks in relation to [enacted] modes of power, moral codes and Christian discipleship. His practice seeks to push boundaries between visual media and social architectures across an array of mediums such as image-making, installations, performance, archiving and sound composition as sites of proclamation, re-memory and testimony. J. Paris' ongoing Investigation accentuates intricacies [tied] in-between stigmatized social experiences and modernity. He traces through imperial constructions & technologies of censorship to situate immersing modes of historiography, performativity and reinstitution — coding and/or decoding semantics of intimacy by passing public consciousness as well as authorships surpassing state authority.