{"id":11761,"date":"2026-02-17T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/?p=11761"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:16:47","slug":"the-first-women-as-primeiras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/the-first-women-as-primeiras\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Women (As Primeiras)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tuesday, March 31st at 7:00 pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: Adriana Ya\u00f1ez<\/p>\n<p>2024 Brazil | 78 minutes<\/p>\n<p>When women\u2019s football is outlawed in Brazil in 1941, the game is forced into the shadows\u00a0until its re-legalization\u00a0in 1979. This documentary\u00a0follows\u00a0the\u00a0first players to return to professional competition,\u00a0who were discovered young and asked to love\u00a0a sport that did not love them back. Through archival photographs, headlines, and\u00a0wide-ranging interviews, the film moves between past and present, revealing the cost of exclusion and the endurance of passion. A quiet act of resistance, and a testament to why these women and their game still matter.\u00a0<em>Audience Jury Best Film Award, 2024\u00a0Triadentes\u00a0Film Festival;\u00a0SoFoot\u00a0award\u00a0(Best Film), 2024 Thinking Football Film Festival; Best Feature Film, 2023\u00a0CINEfoot\u00a0International Football Film Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other films by Adriana Ya\u00f1ez:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Crime Amongst Us (2020)<\/li>\n<li>Lampi\u00e3o\u2019s Sandal (2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find her on letterboxd: <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/director\/adriana-yanez-1\/\">Adriana Ya\u00f1ez<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"As primeiras\u00a0 (The First Women) - Trailer subtitled in English\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W3degIAnQgU\" width=\"974\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A documentary following the lives of Brazilian soccer players who were discovered young and asked to love a sport that did not love them back. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/the-first-women-as-primeiras\/\"> Watch the trailer <\/a>&hellip; <span class=\"ls-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/the-first-women-as-primeiras\/\"><em>Continue Reading<\/em> &raquo;<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"author":19040,"featured_media":11755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[95,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-95","category-lafs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The First Women (As Primeiras) - Center for Latin American &amp; Caribbean Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/the-first-women-as-primeiras\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The First Women (As Primeiras)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A documentary following the lives of Brazilian soccer players who were discovered young and asked to love a sport that did not love them back. 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