Cultne.TV

THE TV

Awakened Black Culture. Cultne.TV is the first Brazilian television channel 100% dedicated to black culture. We are entertainment, music, sports, education, social movements, religion, communication, health and special content.

THE COLLECTION

The Cultne platform was created in 2009, based on the collections of Enúgbárijo Comunicações, Ras Adauto and Vik Birkbeck and CP - Cor da Pele Produções, by Filó Filho and Carlos Medeiros. The joint production of these two producers totals more than two thousand hours of video, involving cultural, political and social manifestations of the black population in Rio de Janeiro. The main objective was to converge all available audiovisual material, of popular cultural relevance, especially Afro-Brazilian, in order to offer the entire population the rich diversity of artistic and intellectual expressions of the Afro-descendant segment, which today represents the vast majority of the people Brazilian.

Currently, a large part of this unpublished material and from other authorial sources needs to be digitized, guaranteeing its perpetuation and digital distribution.

Launched in March 2009, the Cultne YouTube channel brings together more than 3,000 videos, becoming the largest digital collection of black culture in Latin America and its development is positively reflected in the self-esteem of the black population, which is represented in an expressive way. cultural content. In addition to the historical archives, Cultne hosts new and incessant video productions of Brazilian black culture.

THE INSTITUTE

The Cultne Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to the Memory and History of the Black Population and is based on its extensive collection of black culture and intellectual production, created in 1980. Its pillars of action are in the areas of Memory and History Public, Culture, Education and Communication.

The set of actions is connected to the processes that were enhanced by the amendment to the Law of Guidelines and Bases for National Education (LDB – Law No. 9394/1996), which made teaching African and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture mandatory, as well as for affirmative action policies for the access of black students to public and private universities in the country. Thus, the Cultne Collection acts in the formation of a broad awareness for the defense of the right to memory and for the anti-racist fight in Brazil.

The production and preservation of audiovisual collections of black culture and struggles in the last 40 years has resulted in the development of a unique and pioneering experience of Public History in Brazilian society, associated with the dialogue with intellectuals, activists and academics, in particular with historians. ) black women.