Laura Faerman

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​Laura Faerman is a documentary filmmaker, researcher and curator of audiovisual projects. "Vento na Fronteira" is her ninth film as a director, her first feature film.

In 2014, he accompanied and registered the National Commission for Indigenous Truth, which for the first time investigated the violations of rights committed by the Brazilian State against populations of different ethnicities during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). He traveled around the country recording stories hitherto unknown: forced removals, enslavement, rape, torture, murder, illegal imprisonment, among other violations. It is estimated that more than 8,300 indigenous people were killed during the dictatorship in Brazil.  

Based on this research, he directed and edited, with Marina Weis, the audiovisual series “The Dangerous Memory” (6 episodes of 26 min.), with recordings in dozens of villages, unpublished archival material and testimonies of anthropologists, indigenists, journalists, indigenous leaders and elders who survived the lead years.

She curated the exhibitions “Passion of Memory”, with films and workshop by filmmaker Patrício Guzman (2017); "Game of Truth - Documentaries by Peter Watkins" (2012), the first retrospective of the English filmmaker in Brazil; and "The Cinema of Maya Deren (2009).

He gathered, digitized and made available the production of his father, journalist Marcos Faerman, on a website (2016):  

http://www.marcosfaerman.jor.br/index.html

She works as a researcher, editor and director of documentary projects  in "With an eye on the ruralists", an independent media vehicle that monitors Brazilian agribusiness and its social and environmental impacts. His upcoming documentary, “Lossers: The Political and Economic Destroyers of the Planet,” is in pre-production.