Olhar Award (Best Film)

Best Director

Best Scriptwriter

Best Performance

Best Art Director

Best DOP

Best Sound

Best Editor

Olhar Award (Best Film)

Special Jury Prize

Olhar Award (Best Film)

Special Jury Prize

Olhar Award (Best Film)

Olhar Award (Best Film)

Best Film

Best Film

Created in 2011, The Brazilian Film Critics Association (Abraccine) is a result of a historic enterprise, being the first national organization to gather Brazilian film critics. 

The award will be given out to a film, short or feature, part of Mirada Paranaese. Every year, the AVEC-PR Award is rebaptized as it gathers to celebrate artists in the state. This year, the Paraná Video and Cinema Association honors Ari Candido Fernandes, the first Black filmmaker from Londrina. Ari Candido Fernandes, a photographer, Black movement activist, and filmmaker from Londrina, passed away on August 19, 2023. His first involvement with the world of cinema was as a film club enthusiast in the late 1960s. In that turbulent period, Ari Candido was forced to leave the city after being detained by the Department of Political and Social Order - DOPS. His crime was screening the film “São Paulo S.A.” by Sérgio Person. From then on, he began to forge his path across Brazil and the world, with Santos as his initial destination and Brasília as the second. In the capital city, he began his undergraduate studies in Cinema at the University of Brasilia. Alongside his studies, Ari organized film club sessions, which again led to problems. Subsequently, he was forced to flee once more, seeking refuge in Sweden as a political exile. In the 1970s, he traveled to Paris, where he concluded his undergraduate studies in Cinema. It was there that he filmed his first movie: “Martinho da Vila, Paris 1977”. His second cinematic venture also took place in the 1970s, but this time in North and Northeast African nations. “Por que a Eritreia?”, released in 1979, delved into the revolutions and civil war in Eritrea, set against the backdrop of the region’s contested influence by hegemonic nations during the Cold War. With the enactment of the Amnesty Law in 1979, Ari Candido was finally able to return to Brazil. Subsequently, he directed four additional films: “O Rito de Ismael Ivo” (2003), “O Moleque” (2004), “Pacaembu: terras alagadas” (2006), and “Jardim Beleléu” (2009). His audiovisual work sheds light on the life he led as a dedicated activist for human rights and the rights of the Black community. His films tackle pressing issues such as racism and the living conditions of the Black population in Brazil and across Africa. Written by Artur Ianckievicz