The theater group that launched Lázaro Ramos before he was *that* Lázaro Ramos.
The 28-year history of the Olodum Theater Band, Latin America's longest-running black theater company. Created in Salvador in 1990, in partnership with the Olodum Cultural Group, the company was responsible for launching names such as Lázaro Ramos and Érico Brás. Gathering archive images and interviews with Bando members, collaborators and other guests, the group's trajectory is built.
Direction
Lázaro Ramos directs his own origin story with genuine love.
Production
Three decades of archive footage woven into living memory.
Director
Lázaro Ramos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bando de Teatro Olodum emerged from Salvador's Pelourinho district, the same neighborhood that gave global visibility to Afro-Brazilian culture through music before theater claimed its space.
Lázaro Ramos directing this at age 37—roughly the age Bando itself was when filmed—creates a mirror effect: the student now shaping how the institution is remembered.
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