CJFF Presents: In My Skin
Physical ScreeningVENUE : RIVER PARK CHURCH. 3818 14A ST. SW. CALGARYWhen: November 19, 1:00 p.m
Release Year: 2020
Runtime: 1h 25m
Director(s): Toni Venturi ; Val Gomes(co-director)
Synopsis:
“Ten million blacks captured in Africa and taken to slave labor in the colonies of the New World. Five million were engaged in the sugar cane plantations and the gold mines of Brazil. A history of blood and cruelty. How a white middle-class and middle age filmmaker, descendent from Italian immigrants, can talk about racism? He invites Val Gomes, indigenous and black, to codirect the project and delve into the roots of the local racial issue.
They plunged into a filming experience which creates new perspectives from their view as black woman and white man. A disturbing panel sewn with characters, music and black intellectual thinking that unveil the racism deep-rooted in Brazil."
Filmmaker from São Paulo, graduated in cinema in Canada. He was one of the developers of "Gente que Faz", a series of mini-documentaries popular on television in the 1990s. He founded the production company Olhar Imaginário in 1996, which today has partner Tiago Berti, executive producer, and actress Débora Duboc.
In 2001 he was president of APACI - Associação dos Cineastas Paulistas. As a leader in the audiovisual sector, he led the creation of the Sabesp Cinema Promotion Program in 2002 by the state government and the municipal company Spcine in 2015.
His films stand out for the excellence of the actors and strong human content. He directed and produced 9 feature films - 4 fiction and 5 documentaries - which received 69 awards at film festivals in the country and abroad. 
She is co-director of the feature-length documentary Dentro da Minha Pele (2020), with filmmaker Toni Venturi, selected for the 25th É Tudo Verdade 2020 Festival, also selected for the 33rd IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2020. Available by Globopay since August 2020. He directed the short fiction film A Voz de Adélia (2019) at the Academia Internacional de Cinema.