Salvador, Brasil — January 2027
Currently Building:
Building on the success of our previous editions which convened over 300 artists and audiences from across Latin America, West Africa, Europe, and the US, Odù is now in active production for January 2027.
Following a strategic hiatus to design a more sustainable production model, we are dedicated to scaling our infrastructure to match our artistic ambition. We are moving away from concentrated, independent labor toward a collaborative structure that honors the care, rigor, and local impact that define our work.
To anchor our 2027 next edition, we are currently seeking:
Funding: $10,000 USD to secure early-stage planning, foundational fees, and production groundwork
Operational Partners: Collaborators with expertise in administration, accounting, and logistics
Creative Infrastructure: Print houses, fabricators, and production partners to build out festival materials
We invite artists, storytellers, and skilled collaborators to join this 12-month build.
For Institutional & Philanthropic Partners We are seeking mission-aligned sponsors and foundational funders to anchor our 2027 cycle. To request our Sponsorship Deck or discuss a partnership, please contact us at potoglobo@gmail.com
In 2023, Odù was made possible due to the financial support and generosity of Black Feminist organizations: Artist As First Responder, Deep Waters Dance Theater, and Red Clay Sound Haus.
About Odù
Odù is a film festival shaped by the creative inquiry of Black, Indigenous, and queer artists from around the world, situated within Salvador’s long-standing arts and culture circuit.
The festival is developed through intentional partnerships with cultural venues that carry historical significance in the city, positioning Odù within an existing creative infrastructure while expanding its reach. Programming brings internationally recognized filmmakers into shared space with emerging artists, researchers, and students, collapsing distance across experience and geography in order to engage urgent social, political, and cultural questions.
Previous editions convened over 300 participants, with artists and audiences traveling from across Latin America, the United States, Europe, and West Africa, positioning Odù as a site of international cultural exchange rooted in local context.
How We Operate
Odù is built through a people centered production model that treats access, labor, and local economies as core infrastructure. The festival is free to the public and invests directly in Salvador’s creative economy through no fee vendor markets, equitable compensation for staff and collaborators, and programming anchored in cultural sites with deep historical significance that are increasingly threatened by disinvestment and erasure.
Programming is designed to circulate beyond institutional centers, engaging peripheral neighborhoods and audiences often excluded by assumptions about taste, access, or interest. Odù approaches access as a design problem rather than an outreach initiative, structuring participation so communities are met where they already are.
By convening artists, audiences, and economies across borders, Odù facilitates the exchange of tools, knowledge, and strategies among participants, strengthening a translocal network of cultural workers engaged in sustained collaboration, shared inquiry, and long term cultural production.
