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Helena Almeida
- Languages:
- English, Portuguese, Spanish
- Issues:
- Education, Racial Injustice, Hunger/Food insecurity, Economic Injustice, Labor issues, Voting Rights, Women and Girls, Gender violence , Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Impact Producing, Impact evaluation
- Cultural/racial identity:
- White Latina
- Self identification:
- Female
Bio
HELENA DIAS is a documentary filmmaker and creative producer with a degree in Radio and TV and a postgraduate degree in Documentary Filmmaking. She has worked for over ten years as a local and executive producer, screenwriter and director of documentary series and films for ARD, WDR, TVE, Deustche Welle, Channel Asia, Vice, O Globo and the UN. Local producer for "The Eddge of Democracy", an Oscar-nominated film by Petra Costa and scriptwriter, co-writer and associate producer of the feature documentary "Seeds: Black Women in Power" about the biggest political uprising led by black women in Brazil after the execution of councilwoman Marielle Franco, currently shown on Globoplay International.
