Aída Esther Bueno Sarduy

Aída Esther Bueno Sarduy holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a filmmaker. Her research work has focused on religions of African origin in Cuba and Brazil, approached from a gender perspective and from feminist theory and criticism. Currently, she studies the processes of buying and selling of enslaved people, as well as the letters of freedom and manumission documents of African and Afro-descendant women in Brazil during the 18th and 19th centuries, with a special focus on the states of Pernambuco and Bahia. She has taken some of her archival research to film and audiovisual installation (Guillermina, short documentary; Joaquina de Angola, audiovisual installation; Anna Borges do Sacramento, in editing).

Since 1999, she has taught at several universities in the United States, including NYU, Boston University and Stanford. She is the founder of Ibirí Filmes, an Afro-focused audiovisual production company based in Spain, dedicated to promoting the work of black filmmakers. She also runs Afro Diasporic Room, a consultancy specializing in Afro-Latin American artistic projects.