Processo de produção do documentário Uma Mulher com uma Câmera.

Abstract

This study presents the production process of the documentary Uma Mulher Com Uma Câmera, a film that aims to reflect on the participation of women in the audiovisual labor market in the Cariri region of Ceará, Brazil. The documentary is based on the trajectory of photographer and filmmaker Nívia Uchôa, a pioneer professional in the region whose career began in the 1990s and continues to the present day. Through the observation of her daily life, interviews, and the monitoring of her work, the film discusses gender inequalities present in technical positions within the audiovisual field, especially in cinematography and camera operation. The narrative also incorporates the director herself as a character, configuring the documentary as a process of investigation and self-reflection about the presence of women in the audiovisual field. Methodologically, the project is developed in four stages: research, pre-production, production, and post-production. The theoretical research draws on studies about gender and cinema, as well as authors from documentary studies, in addition to data on women's participation in the Brazilian audiovisual sector. The work seeks to contribute to the visibility of women working in the audiovisual field in the Cariri region and to the recovery of historically invisibilized trajectories, enhancing documentary cinema as an instrument of representation, memory and social reflection.