Theresa Jessouroun

Theresa Jessouroun

Birth : , Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

History

Theresa Jessouroun is a Brazilian filmmaker and screenwriter. Born in Rio de Janeiro, she graduated in History at PUC-Rio in 1978. But the following year she started working in cinema, bol as a continuity artist, scene photographer and editing assistant.

Profile

Theresa Jessouroun

Movies

Direito de Sonhar
Director
O Corpo é Nosso!
Director
It is a documentary about the trajectory of the liberation of the Brazilian woman's body and exposes the differences of this trajectory to white and black women. The film presents interviews, archive images that illustrate some of the factors that contributed to this liberation in Brazil - such as music, dance, fashion and the contraceptive pill - and proposes a discussion about feminism through the deconstruction of the masculine. The film incorporates fictional scenes where men do not realize their macho and racist behavior and full of class prejudices, rooted and accepted by society.
À Queima Roupa
Director
Point Blank is an investigative documentary on police violence and corruption perpetrated in Rio de Janeiro in the past 20 years. It vividly portrays the most emblematic incidents that occurred during this period through the perspective of family members, witnesses, survivors, and other people who were directly involved in such cases. The film starts with the notorious Vigario Geral Massacre of 1993 and culminates with the executions ordered and carried out by law enforcement agents in 2012 and 2013. These brutal facts are presented based on witness reports that reconstruct the memory of the few who survived the slaughters.
Coração do Samba
Director
Samba
Writer
Samba
Director
Mulheres no Front
Producer
Three stories of female action in social movements, close in their struggle but distant in the geographical space: the Jardim Uchôa Residents Association, in Recife; the Rancho Fundo Residents Association, in Rio de Janeiro; and the Popular Legal Prosecutors group in Bom Jesus, Porto Alegre.
Mulheres no Front
Editor
Three stories of female action in social movements, close in their struggle but distant in the geographical space: the Jardim Uchôa Residents Association, in Recife; the Rancho Fundo Residents Association, in Rio de Janeiro; and the Popular Legal Prosecutors group in Bom Jesus, Porto Alegre.
Seis Histórias
Producer
Six stories of children and adolescents who had their rights violated, and the reality of the Rights Councils and Guardianship Councils (newly created in 1995) of two Brazilian cities, Blumenau and Belo Horizonte.
Boca de Lixo
Editor
In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatever they can find to eat.
A Lei e a Vida
Producer
Medium length film on environmental protection in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.
Fim do Silêncio
Director
Fim do Silêncio
Writer
Dois Mundos
Director