“I was remembering the time… That I got wrapped up in some crazy shit with my sister Chitara. My sister made history in Sol Nascente. That was in 2019. I’d just got out of prison for drug charges. My sister asked me to be a part of this crazy scheme she was caught up in. She got a hold of a map of underground oil pipes. She got it and then… she bought a lot in Sol Nascente” Between documentary and fiction, western and queer manifesto, the film tells the explosive story of of the all-female group Gasolineiras de Kebradas, as it echoes throughthe walls of Colmeia, the women’s prison of Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil.
Portuguese Joana Pimenta is a film director, professor of filmmaking and a member of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. Her movie An aviation field (2016) was screened at many international festivals and won the Jury Award for Best Film in Competition at Zinebi ’58.
Adirley Queirós is a filmmaker from Brazil. His latest films are Once it was Brasilia (2017), which premiered at the 70th Locarno Film Festival where it received the Special Mention Signs of Life, and White Out Black In (2014), which was widely screened and won more than 20 awards in Brazil and abroad.
