Úrsula Vidal
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Ursula Vidal | |
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| Secretária de Estado de Cultura do Pará | |
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| Born | Ursula Vidal Santiago de Mendonça 26 January 1972 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil |
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| Occupation | journalist filmmaker |
Ursula Vidal Santiago de Mendonça (born 26 January 1972) is a Brazilian journalist, filmmaker, and political activist affiliated with the MDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement). She is currently the Secretary of Culture for the state of Pará, having served as president of the Fórum Nacional de Secretários e Dirigentes de Cultura from 2019 to 2021.
Early life and journalism
[edit]Vidal was born in Recife, Pernambuco, and moved to Belém do Pará when she was two. Her parents, João and Elisabeth, were activists in the resistance against the Brazilian military dictatorship.[1]
When she was fifteen, Vidal began working as a radio presenter at Rádio Liberal FM and two other local radio stations, and at just seventeen, she had her first experience on television as a presenter for Jornal Cultura, on TV Cultura do Pará.
She studied journalism at Federal University of Pará (UFPA), and completed the course in Rio de Janeiro at Faculdade Hélio Alonso.
At university she took courses with filmmakers Eduardo Coutinho, João Moreira Salles and Walter Lima Jr., and in 1999 directed her first documentary, Marias e Josés de Nazaré, about the largest religious manifestation in Brazil, the Círio de Nazaré.[2] As well as festivals, it was shown on television in Brazil and Portugal.[1] In the same year, she received the Itaú Cultural Foundation award for the film A Caravana do Brega.[1][2]
In 2000, Ursula Vidal returned to Belém and, in 2001, took over as presenter and editor of the daily show on SBT Pará, which she did for over a decade.[3] She continued making films and, in 2004, directed the short film Aparência Nada +. In 2014, she co-directed the film Catadores de Sonhos with Homero Flávio.[1][4][2]
In 2012, Vidal completed a postgraduate course in Sustainability at Fundação Dom Cabral,[2] in Minas Gerais, and in 2015 she was ranked among the best Brazilian journalists, placing fifth among the ten most admired from the North Region.[1][5]
Political career
[edit]In 2014, Vidal was invited by Partido Popular Socialista (PPS), with support from Rede Sustentabilidade (REDE), to run for election as state deputy for Pará;[1] though she received 5,653 votes, she was not elected.[6] Two years later, in 2016, she ran for mayor of Belém with REDE[7] and received 79,968 votes, coming fourth.[8]
In 2018, then affiliated with Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL), Vidal ran for senator for Pará[9] and received 585,344 votos.[10] Unelected, Vidal accepted an offer from governor Helder Barbalho (MDB) to become Secretary of Culture for Pará (SECULT), a move that led her to disaffiliate from PSOL, as PSOL considered themselves opposition to the MDB government.[11][12] During her time as culture secretary, she was elected president of the Fórum Nacional de Secretários e Dirigentes Estaduais de Cultura for 2019–2020.[13]
On 1 April 2022, she resigned from her position as culture secretary to run for election again.[14] She then joined the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), Barbalho's party, and announced she would run for federal deputy.[15]
Election results
[edit]| Year | Election | Party | Posistion | Votes | % | Result | Ref |
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| 2014 | 2014 Pará gubernatorial election[16] | PPS | State Deputy | 5.653 | 0,15% | Alternate | [17] |
| 2016 | Municipality of Belém | REDE | Mayor | 79.968 | 10,29% | Not elected | [18] |
| 2018 | Pará State Elections | PSOL | Senator | 585.344 | 8,35% | Not elected | [19] |
| 2022 | Pará State Elections | MDB | Federal deputy | 29.655 | 0,65% | Alternate | [20] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Úrsula Vidal". Portal dos Jornalistas (in Portuguese). November 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Documentário Catadores de Sonhos é lançado neste sábado" [The documentary "Catadores de Sonhos" is released this Saturday]. Revista Pará Mais (in Portuguese). 12 November 2015. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ^ Valois, Érika (11 August 2008). "Para a jornalista Úrsula Vidal, quem trabalha na Amazônia está no "olho do furacão"" [For journalist Úrsula Vidal, those who work in the Amazon are in the "eye of the storm"]. Portal Imprensa (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ^ Greenme 2016.
- ^ Maxpress 2015.
- ^ Eleições 2014 2014.
- ^ G1 2016.
- ^ Toda Política 2016.
- ^ G1 2018.
- ^ Gazeta do Povo 2018.
- ^ G1 Pará 2018.
- ^ Roma News 2018.
- ^ Bacana News 2019.
- ^ "Secretários e diretores do Governo do Pará deixam postos para disputar eleições 2022; veja lista". G1. 2 April 2022. Archived from the original on 27 April 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "Ursula Vidal se filia ao MDB e confirma pré-candidatura à Câmara Federal". www.romanews.com.br. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Diário Oficial do Estado do Pará, p. 4". Imprensa Oficial do Pará. 2 February 2023.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "Resultado das Apurações dos votos do 2º turno das Eleições 2014 no Pará para Governador, Senador, Deputados Federais e Deputados Estaduais". Eleições 2014 no PA (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 26 September 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "Resultado da apuração das Eleições 2016 em Belém para prefeito e vereador". g1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 27 May 2025. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "Senadores e deputados federais/estaduais eleitos: Apuração e resultado das Eleições 2018 PA". UOL Eleições 2018. Archived from the original on 10 October 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "Apuração das Eleições 2022 para presidente, governadores, senadores, deputados federais e estaduais". noticias.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
Bibliography
[edit]- "Ursula Vidal é eleita presidente do Fórum Nacional dos Secretários e Dirigentes Estaduais de Cultura". Bacana News. 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- "Secretária Ursula Vidal e anuncia filiação ao Podemos". Diário Online. 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- "Ursula Vidal 23013". Eleições 2014. 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- "Candidata Ursula Vidal". Gazeta do Povo. 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- "Rede lança Ursula Vidal como candidata à Prefeitura de Belém". G1 Globo. 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- "Candidatos ao Senado pelo Pará nas eleições 2018: veja a lista". G1 Globo. 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- "Helder Barbalho anuncia Úrsula Vidal como secretária de Cultura do Pará". G1 Globo. 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- "Catadores de sonhos, documentário da vida dos catadores no lixão de Aurá, Belém". Greenme. 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- "Os + admirados jornalistas brasileiros 2015". Maxpress. 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- "Úrsula Vidal desiste de pré-candidatura". O Liberal. 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
- "Ursula Vidal é desfiliada do Psol: a jornalista deve assumir a Secretaria de Cultura na gestão Helder Barbalho". Roma News. 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- "Ursula Vidal 18". Toda Política. 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2019.