The following description comes from the event organizer.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, during Brazil’s military dictatorship, a group of queer filmmakers in the northeastern state of Paraíba were taking courses in “Direct Cinema” (also called Cinéma Vérité) at NUDOC (The Federal University of Paraíba’s Cinematographic Documentation Center), a documentary film workshop created by the great French filmmaker Jean Rouch, through his Ateliers Varan film school. The Direct Cinema workshop equipped NUDOC with film, Super-8 cameras, lighting equipment, tripods, and more. This had a major impact on the cultural scene of João Pessoa, as, for the first time, filmmaking was something possible for more people.