Actress Lian Gaia
Lian Gaia is an actress whose poetic and performative work has been presented in Brazil and abroad. Gaia has a degree in psychology from Santa Úrsula University, attended the seventh Cesgranrio Actors' Workshop and is a student at Casa das Artes in Laranjeiras. She was born in Belford Roxo in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Nova Iguaçu with her three siblings in a tenement house.
She is heir to the struggle for land and for the lives of native peoples, the great-granddaughter of João Pedro Teixeira - the founding leader of Paraíba's first peasant league whose life and struggle was the subject of the classic documentary “Cabra marcado para morrer” (1984). She uses her art to fight against ethnocide and to give voice and visibility to the reclaiming of indigenous youths' identities in urban context, while experiencing her own process of reclaiming.
She is a member of the Wyka Kwara Association and the Wayra Kunas Brasil Movement; co-founder of Anauá Filmes, an independent indigenous production company and creator of the group “Ensaios Ancestrais”. Her recent work includes the special “Falas da Terra” (April, 2021) shown on Rede Globo; and the short film “Baile” (May, 2021) shown at the RePensa Festival, as well as the series “DOM” (2023) available on Amazon Prime Video.
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