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Consultancy and advice on creative projects

This is a space for consultancy, accompaniment and support for audiovisual projects that address issues related to the African diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean. This space, promoted by Ibirí Filmes, an Afro-centered audiovisual production company, arises from the need of many creators, producers, curators, and commissioners to deepen their sociocultural, historical, and anthropological knowledge in order to strengthen their creations and projects. Considering broader possibilities and references when presenting their audiovisual proposals and making available to each project academic, cinematographic, literary, etc. materials, specifically designed to nourish each project in a safe space for Afro-feminist listening and exchange, is one of our unique features.

Afrodiasporic Room was born with the conviction that it is possible to generate narratives that do not have to resort to racist, homophobic or gender-based discrimination, which are so common and recurrent in art in general and in the audiovisual industry in particular. Building stories and proposals that excite, entertain and challenge the audience without resorting to or slipping into discourses committed to the colonialist and supremacist past is a great challenge and for this we put at your disposal a highly qualified team with plenty of experience in these topics, both in the academic and cinematographic fields. Broadening the horizons of each project, collectively feeding each story, maintaining a critical, anti-racist and informed perspective that celebrates, respects and embraces diversity is one of the objectives of this Afrocentric consultancy and advice.

We know that each project has specific needs and that each creator faces various challenges throughout the process. In this sense, we work on demand for each creator or producer, who will inform us of their needs, concerns or weaknesses when building the plot, proposing an audiovisual project, or approaching a specific ethnocultural reality, and we will design a proposal that can address and accompany those expressed needs and concerns in the best possible way.

OUR TEAM

Aída Esther Bueno Sarduy

Anthropologist, filmmaker, producer.

Karina Moret-Miranda

Artist, historian, academic.

Vita Daniellis Hernández Calderón

Sociologist, curator, artist.

Wendy Espinal

Filmmaker, cultural manager, creative producer.

Would you like to know more?

Discover our journey and background by clicking on our photographs.

The Afrodiasporic Room team is made up of Afro-descendant women whose training and academic careers are related to artistic creation from various fields such as anthropology, art, history and cinema. We also have an external network of collaborators who can assist on a one-off basis as consultants for a specific project due to its specificity.

Afrodiasporic Room also offers advice to juries and audiovisual laboratories that work on projects with Afro-Latam themes.

CONSULTING MODALITIES

Meetings via zoom to jointly analyze and comment on materials previously sent. Sharing ideas, questions and answers.
Written consultations in which a series of specific questions posed by creators and/or producers to our specialists will be answered via email.
Advice on scripts and/or versions of films and/or series at any stage, responding to general or specific requests made in writing.
Project support from the development phase to the final cut.
Final cut viewing and comments (in person or virtually).
In-person advice in film laboratories and juries.

Count on us and our experience to support your project and accompany you in the creative process.

Contact FORM - AFRODIASPORIC ROOM

Project name (provisional or final):

Author/s - Director/s:

Screenwriter/s: YES / NO

Producer/s: YES / NO

Name/s (if applicable):

Country of origin:

Country of residence:

Brief biography (1000 characters):

Project phase:

1. Incubator
2. Development (early phases)
3. Advanced development
4. Pre-production
5. Production
6. Post-production
7. Final cut

Please indicate the project phase number/s:

How did you hear about us:

What your project is about (2000 characters):

What kind of help do you request from our consultant AFRODIASPORIC ROOM (1000 characters)

Please, indicate whether your questions are related to:

Historical context
Anthropological/sociological cultural issues
Character development
Treatment, plot
Script
Editing
Production
Others

Please indicate the consultation number/s.

Three specific questions about the project that this consultancy should answer and/or address and that would be essential for you (1000 characters):

Question #1

Question #2

Question #1

Question #2

Question #3

In what language are you requesting the consultation?:

Consultation modalities requested:

Meeting via Zoom to jointly analyze and comment on audiovisual materials previously sent. Sharing of ideas, questions and answers. Indicate duration of the consultation: 1-3 hours maximum.
Written consultation in which a series of specific questions posed by the creators and/or producers to our specialists will be answered via email.
Advice on scripts and/or versions of films and/or series in any of their phases, attending to general or specific requests formulated in writing.
Accompaniment of project/s from the development phase to the final cut.
Final cut viewing and comments (in person or virtual).
In-person advice/s in film laboratories and juries.
Other suggested modality.

Please indicate the consultation modality number/s.

Please, explain what materials are attached for analysis and specify:

for written material→ the number of characters
and for audiovisual material→ the number of viewing hours

(1000 characters)

Explain.

Other questions you would like to tell us about your project (1000 characters):

Please read:

Once you answer this questionnaire, we will need 7 to 10 days to make an initial contact. We will send you a financial proposal via email. By accepting it, you will pay 50% of this amount, which will be deposited into the IBIRÍ FILMES SL account, which will be indicated to you. Within the agreed period, we will inform you that we have the report and/or meeting scheduled. Before sending the report via email or carrying out the online consultation, the remaining 50% will be paid into the same account. Once the transfer is confirmed, we will proceed, if applicable, to carry out the interview via zoom or we will send you the written report.

By accepting the proposal, our team undertakes to keep all the content of the project secret. Likewise, the consultation report, whether written or recorded (upon request), will not be disseminated in part or in full in any public media, or on any social network. This report will be used exclusively by the people involved in the project and in a private manner.

For this purpose, once the consultation has been accepted, a confidentiality agreement will be sent for both parties to sign in advance.

Gracias por su consulta.