{"id":"viviane-ferreira","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/viviane-ferreira","language":"en","name":"Viviane Ferreira","name_en":"Viviane Ferreira","name_ne":null,"description":"Brazilian lawyer, activist and filmmaker","headline":"Brazilian lawyer, activist and filmmaker","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Viviane Ferreira is a Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer. She is also a lawyer and an activist of the Black movement and founder of Odun Filmes. She is also president and co-founder of the Brazilian Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals (APAN).\nHer film O Dia de Jerusa (2014), starring Léa Garcia, was shown at the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival. The short was transformed into the feature A Day With Jerusa (2020) and with it Viviane became only the second black woman to direct a fiction feature film in Brazil, the first being Adélia Sampaio.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Lauro de Freitas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q905164"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97163090#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Brazil","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97163090#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"lawyer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40348"},{"text":"film director","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2526255"},{"text":"activist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15253558"},{"text":"screenwriter","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28389"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97163090#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Paulista University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10387857"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97163090#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"president (since 2025)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30461","start":"2025"},{"text":"president (2021–2024)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30461","start":"2021-02","end":"2024-02"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97163090#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviane_Ferreira","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97163090"],"faq":[{"q":"What positions has Viviane Ferreira held?","a":"Positions held by Viviane Ferreira include: president (since 2025); president (2021–2024)."},{"q":"Where did Viviane Ferreira study?","a":"Viviane Ferreira was educated at Paulista University."}],"related":[{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"},{"name":"Gamal Abdel Nasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gamal-abdel-nasser"},{"name":"Mohamed Morsi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-morsi"},{"name":"Mohamed Naguib","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-naguib"},{"name":"Abdul Rahman Arif","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-rahman-arif"},{"name":"Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/muhammad-najib-ar-ruba-i"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/viviane-ferreira-3cf201c847.jpg","width":500,"height":626,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Anakeykapaz","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viviane_Ferreira.png"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Viviane Ferreira","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviane_Ferreira","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q97163090","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97163090","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Viviane Ferreira.png by Anakeykapaz (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viviane_Ferreira.png","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Viviane Ferreira, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Viviane Ferreira.png — Anakeykapaz, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Viviane Ferreira\". DigiNepal. Last updated 5 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/viviane-ferreira. Retrieved 15 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-05T07:59:07Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-15","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/viviane-ferreira","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/viviane-ferreira","ne":null}}