“There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
— OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Founded by Brazilian-Latina filmmaker Juliana Curi, ANINGA Studio is a multi-platform impact and creative studio dedicated to shaping cinematic, thought-provoking narratives that drive change and to fostering the representation of talents from the Global South and underrepresented communities in the filmmaking industry. This nonprofit organization carries out its initiatives through three working axes: the communication axis ANINGA Advocacy, the educational and professional development axis ANINGA LAB, committed to inclusion and diversity, and the storytelling and production axis ANINGA Stories.
About
Mission
ANINGA is a multi-platform impact and creative studio with a mission to promote a vision and practice of non-extractive filmmaking by prioritizing diversity across the three pillars of the industry’s ecosystem: mentorship, collaboration and collectivity among filmmakers, nurturing space for underrepresented voices, and creating film narratives that provoke change and have a lasting impact.
Vision
Through ANINGA, we seek to show the industry that these new stories and films, made through a crossing of voices and perspectives accessing a variety of roles, also carry sophisticated artistic value that has long been neglected or rendered invisible. They can and should occupy the prestigious spaces given to 'mainstream' narratives, and thus change the whole ecosystem: make it more inclusive, more complex, nuanced, more creative, more surprising, more representative.