Event within the Mix Brasil Festival program schedule in which the audience could try out queer-themed videogames yet to be released and chat live with their developers. The goal is to bring this audiovisual language to the festival areas raising awareness and retaining audience to independent LGBT+ games.
Curatorship and Production:Sofia Wickerhauser and Ariel Velloso
Sofia Wickerhauser is a filmmaker and producer at White Wolfy, has produced several LGBT+ short films which altogether took part in more than 200 editions of international festivals, such as Mix Brasil Festival, Kinoforum Short Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival, among others. Currently, she is the Wicked Queer curator, in Boston.
Ariel Velloso is graduated in Game Design from Anhembi Morumbi University (2010), was Gamemaker Relations and Production Assistant at the first BIG Festival, the biggest independent game festival in Latin America (2012). From 2014 to 2019, she worked with public policy for games at Spcine, organizing events at Virada Cultural in São Paulo and coordinating edicts. In 2018, she opened her own game studio, Aipo Digital, which currently has two projects in progress financed by São Paulo Cultural Action Program (PROAC).
