Team
Founder | Advisor
About Vivian Ostrovsky (New York City — NY, 1945)
After graduating from university in Paris, she became one of the first distributors specializing in films made by women (Ciné-Femmes International). She organized festivals in Europe between 1974 and 1980 and made a point of including artists such as Carolee Schneemann, Valie Export and Maya Deren in the circuit. Vivian Ostrovsky has produced works in super-8, 16mm, video and digital media, and understands the obstacles involved in this type of art.
She created the BFVPP in 2010.
Website: https://vivianostrovsky.com/
Manager | Curator
About Clarisse Rivera (Rio de Janeiro — RJ, 1977)
Clarisse Rivera holds a degree in Design from PUC-Rio, as well as a post-graduate degree in Cinema at the University of Paris VIII. She has more than 10 years’ experience in the audiovisual sector as a researcher, director, and producer. She was also a programming assistant at the Forum des Images (Paris, France).
Clarisse has worked at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival for four years and at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage visual arts school for five years, three of them as Project Coordinator.
She has been with the BFVPP since 2015.
Management Support
About Paula Lacerda (Rio de Janeiro — RJ, 1996)
Paula Lacerda has a degree in Film and Audiovisual at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), and is currently attending the Graduate Program in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of São Paulo (USP), with research on technical image and written narrative. She is experienced in audiovisual education, having worked at Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV/ Fiocruz), and also works as an audiovisual producer in films and series for television and online streaming.
Paula has been providing support to the BFVPP since 2019.
Research and licensing
About Alexandre Gouin (Marseille – France, 1989)
Alexandre Gouin holds a degree in Physical Science and in Industrial Engineering, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication and Culture at UFRJ’s School of Communication, where he is researching the editing of archival images in experimental cinema. He is also associate editor of “Eco-Pós journal” (ECO/UFRJ).
He is PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with research on archive reappropriation in experimental cinema. He is also assistant-editor at Eco-Pós, the academic journal of the Communication School of the UFRJ.
He has worked as a technician in film preservation at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) and studied Editing and post-production at Darcy Ribeiro School of Cinema. Since 2017, he has been working in the field of independent documentaries, in research, licensing, editing, production and post-production
He is a member of the Brazilian Audiovisual Preservation Association (ABPA), and of PAVIC – the Brazilian Association of Audiovisual, Iconography and Content Researchers.
He has been working at the BFVPP since 2023.
Videobrasil Team
About Solange Farkas (Feira de Santana — BA, 1955)
Solange Farkas is curator and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil. She created the Sesc_Videobrasil Contemporary Art Festival in 1983 and was director and chief curator at the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia from 2007 to 2010. She participated as invited curator in the exhibition Anthropocene, at Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea, 2019) in Fuso – Annual Video Art Show (Portugal, 2011-2014 and 2017), in Dak’Art – Biennial of Contemporary African Art (Senegal, 2016), in the 6th Jakarta International Video Festival (Indonesia, 2013), in the 10th Xarja Biennial (United Arab Emirates, 2011), in the 16th Cerveira Biennial (Portugal, 2011) and in the 5th Videozone – International Video Art Biennial (Israel, 2010). She was also one of the jurors of the 14th Xarja Biennial (2019), and a member of the Awards Committee of the Prince Claus Fund Award (2017-2018), the jury of the 10th Rencontres de Bamako – African Biennial of Photography (Mali, 2015) and recently, the Curators’ Selection Committee for the 11th Berlin Biennial (2020). Currently, Solange Farkas is a member of the jury committee for the EYE Art & Film Prize in Amsterdam and of the advisory board of the Pivô Art Institute in São Paulo. In 2017, she was awarded the Montblanc Arts Patronage Award granted by the German foundation to professionals with an outstanding track record in supporting the development of several artistic and cultural expressions.