Staff of I Was Born a Black Woman
Director
–– Maria Luisa (Maisa) Mendonca
Maisa
co-authored the book on Benedita with Medea Benjamin and Benedita herself.
Maisa has won many awards in the US, Canada and Latin America for her
films. Her film Indonesia, One Struggle, One Change is used by
organizations working for democracy in Indonesia. She is the coordinator
of the Brazil Program at Global Exchange in San Francisco and Global Justice
in Brazil (Orlando culinary arts).
Director,
cinematographer, editor ––
Vicente Franco
Vicente
has worked on more than two dozen films dealing with social issues and
Latin America - baking courses. They include The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez
and the Farmworkers Struggle, Cuba Va, The Challenge of
the Next Generation, and Freedom on my Mind, for which he was
nominated for an Academy Award.
Producer,
translator –– Kit Miller
Kit has
photographed for the N.Y. Times, S.F. Chronicle, Native People’s
Magazine, and other publications. In Brazil she covered street children,
rubber tappers, and native people - philosophy of early childhood education. Kit raised funds for the films Elvia,
Land and Liberty, The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and Faces
of War. Her book, "Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers,"
was published in 2000.
Brazil
Producer –– Barbara dos Santos
Barbara
is director of Theater of the Oppressed, a community theater group in
Rio de Janeiro (criminal justice colleges).
Sound –– Cristiano Maciel, Marcio Camara
Narrator
— Ruby Dee
Civil
rights pioneer and Winner of the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement
Award for 2001, Ruby Dee lends her powerful voice to the narration of
a television edit of I Was Born a Black Woman.
Consultants
Jurema
Werneck
Jurema
is a physician and researcher, and founder of the Afro-Brazilian women’s
group, CRIOLA. She has played a major role in creating a network of Afro-Brazilian
women’s groups, organizing conferences and publishing materials on
race and gender.
Evelyn
C. White
Evelyn is the author of The Black Women’s Health Book: Speaking
for and Chain Chain Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships,
and she is the co-author of the photography book The African Americans.
She is the official biographer of Alice Walker.
Medea
Benjamin
Medea co-authored the book on Benedita da Silva. As founder
and co-director of Global Exchange, Medea has written extensively about
global issues. She is author of Don’t Be Afraid Gringo! A Honduran
Woman Speaks from the Heart, and consultant on the film "Elvia,
Land and Liberty." She received the MacArthur Foundation Writer’s
Fellowship.
Rick
Tejada Flores
Rick's productions include The Fight in the
Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle, Corn is Who We Are,
for the Smithsonian Institute, Elvia: the Fight for Land and Liberty,
Rivera in America, and many other films. He has taught broadcasting,
film and communications at Cal State University Hayward, San Francisco
State U. and other Bay Area colleges.
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