Turner's recordings in Bahia

Graduated in Cinema, Gabriela Barreto began her career making films and winning awards when she was still a film student. Her career is marked by approaching popular and Afro-Brazilian culture, with a different vision, privileging points of view that are often neglected, especially of black women. He worked with important names in national cinema such as Andrucha Waddington, Breno Silveira, Kátia Lund, Lula Buarque, Isabel Diegues, among others. With a strong connection with the generation of prominent Bahian filmmakers in the 1980s and 1990s, Gabriela also dedicated herself to the production of cinematographic shows in the interior of Bahia (5 editions of Cine Capão, 1 edition of Cine Guarapuá, 1 edition of Cine Diamantina). and the making of films referring to the Bahian cinematographic movement, such as the film “Bitola Cabeça Super 8”, shown on TV and awarded at 3 national festivals. She was the scene director of the first season of the series “A Música da Minha Vida”. In 2019, he directed the feature-length documentary "Afro-Atlantic Legacies", following in the footsteps of African-American linguist Lorenzo Turner through candomblé terreiros in present-day Bahia in search of memories and living remnants recorded by that researcher in the early 1940s.