NATALIA GONDIM
Fortaleza is the city where I was born, in 1992. Beyond its natural beauty, this city inspires me to support artists who transform our reality, creating artistic movements that connect people here and around the world.
I create video art, documentary films, and live cinema in collaboration with people from different cultures. I seek to explore an art that connects us to a diverse, shared reality as we live and experience the world.
Education
Ph.D. student in Art and Media at Universidade Lusófona in Portugal. She holds a Master's in Cultural Mediation in the Mediterranean from Universidad Ca' Foscari Venezia, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, and Universidad Paul-Valéry Montpellier. She was a fellow of the Master MIM program: Crossing the Mediterranean, a two-year study program related to studies on migration and intercultural mediation in the Mediterranean region. During her bachelor's degree in International Relations at UFRJ, she worked as a communication intern at Doctors Without Borders Brazil. Contributed to and managed cultural mediation projects, as a volunteer, for issues related to the issue of refugees in Brazil, Greece, Israel, and Palestine.
Films
Our films have participated in festivals in different cities around the world. Natália is the co-director of the documentary Les Statues de Fortaleza (2019), which addresses the situation of Venezuelan refugees in Brazil and was shown in multiple countries by the UN during the IOM Global Migration Film Festival. In 2020, Natália founded ReparaDoc, an audiovisual production company that debuted with the film Minas Urbanas (2021), awarded Best Feature Film in the Olhar do Ceará showcase at the Ibero-American Cine Ceará Festival. We produced both the short and feature versions of the film Coragem (2022-2023) and are currently working on the live cinema project Zona de Contato (2024).
