DOCUMENTARY
Balolas Carvalho
Journalist/ Writer/ Documentarian/ Producer
Portugal
A truth seeker, a freedom fighter, and a service-driven spirit. As a human being in progress, assumes privilege as a responsibility. If you don’t like to be challenged, then it's not a match.
With a strong belief in the power of community, Balolas is moved to inspire a regenerative way of being more politically aware, ethically driven, and heart connected.
As a believer in storytelling’s healing power, the Portuguese journalist perceives words as ancient keys to liberation.
Adaptation master, creative problem-solving, and an unstoppable will to give the possible best are some of the traits that allow B to experience the World in a constant adventure state.
For three years, has been producing an independent documentary in Palestine, “Bukra” focused on the different forms of resistance to the Israeli occupation in the Jenin refugee camp.
Invited by the Guerrilla Foundation, in 2021 and throughout 2022, directed the short documentary "The Radicals: Commons and Urban Crisis in Berlin", while was living in Berlin, serving as a correspondent reporter for the European-awarded Luxembourg-based newspaper Contacto.
Has also collaborated with the investigative journalism project Setenta e Quatro, and currently reports as a freelancer to one of the leading newspapers of Portugal, Jornal Público.
The Journey:
Balolas started the journalism path in 2012, contributing as a freelance reporter for different publications and online media, including P3, Público. In Cape Verde (Africa), directed and restructured a Community Radio for seven months and worked as a stringer journalist for “Bloomberg”. Back in Portugal began a master's studies in International Affairs while working for two startups in LA.
In Feb 2017 joined the team of Jornal i as a reporter focused on Human Rights, Environment, and Alternative Lifestyles. Reported from 12 countries, created the weekly segment “Generation I”, dedicated to studying the Millennial generation in Portugal, and traveled through the Balkans for 31 days by bus and train.
At the moment, B is touring with different artists around Europe collaborating with SUPER Fan Live, diving into the beauty of events production, a passion that has been fed along the years. In her versatile and creative life, is also part of the Waking Life Festival team, curating and producing the counter-culture stage (Apuro).
Balolas has also produced four editions of her own gathering, “B. Fest” and a fundraiser event in Lisbon, “Yala”, that attracted 630 people for a day of music, art, and talks about Palestine.
Other collabs on events production and design: Encontros de Alvito, Enara Fest, Primal Gathering, and Cultivation Berlin, among others.
