Roberto Romero
Holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He earned a degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and in Journalism from the Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte (UniBH). Since 2010, he has been conducting research among the Tikmũ’ũn people in Central Brazil and is fluent in the Maxakali language.
He is a researcher at the Núcleo de Antropologia Simétrica (NanSi/Museu Nacional/UFRJ) and a member of the Nodo de Investigación Creación y Ecología de Prácticas da Red de estudios de la cultura visual Abya Yala. Since 2009, he has been part of the Filmes de Quintal Association, where he serves as a film programmer and consultant of forumdoc.bh, Belo Horizonte’s documentary and ethnographic film festival. Within forumdoc.bh, he has organized several seminars, including The Ends in This World: Images from the Anthropocene (2017), Ebó Ejé: Brazilian Cinema and Afro-Religions (2018), The Dead and the Camera (2019), and This Land is Our Land (2020).
His academic contributions include essays, books, book chapters, and articles such as There is Song, There is History (Critical Times, 2021), This Land Is Our Land: A Travel Journal (Film X Autochtonous Struggles, Sternberg Press, 2025) and Indigenous Cinema in Brazil – A Conversation with Divino Tserewahú, Takumã Kuikuro, Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy, Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, and Michele Kaiowá. (The Oxford Handbook of Brazilian Cinema, Oxford University Press, 2025, in press).