Lolo Arziki

Lolo Arziki is a Cape Verdean documentary filmmaker and LGBT rights activist, born on 5 February 1992 on the island of Maio. They moved to Portugal at the age of 13 and now live between Portugal and Luxembourg. Arziki graduated in film at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and completed a master's degree in aesthetics and artistic studies at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. As a black feminist, their work explores sexuality, blackness and gender, and they campaign for a legal prohibition of homophobia in Cape Verde, where homosexuality only ceased to be a crime in 2004. Their films as director are Homestay (2016), Relatos de uma Rapariga Nada Púdica (2016) and Sakudi (2020). Homestay won the national revelation prize at the Plateau International Film Festival in Praia and the world premiere television prize at the Avanca Film Festival in Portugal, both in 2017.