DANIEL ZACARIOTTI
Bio
I have a Master's Degree in Communication and Consumer Practices from the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, a Bachelor's Degree in Performing Arts from the University of Brasilia, and a Bachelor's Degree in Social Communication - Advertising from the Universidade Católica de Brasilia. Throughout my academic and professional career, I have worked on projects related to media use, particularly audiovisual content, as a platform for creating new public policies and raising awareness for human rights policies about LGBTQIA+ issues.
I've been invited to present articles and lectures on over twenty occasions, including conferences in Brazil, Spain, France, the United States, Colombia, and Canada. Additionally, I've published seventeen articles addressing different aspects of research on LGBTQIA+ rights, LGBTQIA+ audiovisual production, and politics in Latin America. I am passionate about advocating for marginalized communities and believe that media, including film, can play a decisive role in promoting social change.
Education
PhD Candidate in Film and Television Studies - University of Warwick - 2026
M.A in Communication and Consumer Practices - Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) - 2022
Bachelor in Performing Arts - University of Brasilia (UnB) - 2018
Bachelor in Social Communication - University of Brasilia (UnB) - 2018
Professional experiences
Junior Professional Consultant on Communications - ILGA World (2022) @ilgaworld
Project Manager - B-Young Co. (2019 - 2022) @agencia_byoung
Social Media Manager - Suporte Comunicação (2019 - 2022) @suportecomunica
Director and Founder - O Composto (2019 - 2022) @o.composto
Publications
Almeida, G.; Zacariotti, D. (2023). “Do I fuck you or do you fuck me? Performance, pornotopy and aesthetical reivindication of the violence in Baise-moi by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi”. Book of Colloque Virtuel Internationel Politiques et Récits du Corps 2021.
Gelain, G.; Zacariotti, D. (2023). “I’m just Walter Mercado: iconography and iconoclasm as ruminant performative epistemology in Walter Mercado”. Book of the Mucho Mucho Amor International Symposium: Walter Mercado's media complexity.
Zacariotti, D. (2021). “Aesthetics and politics in the embodied political subjectivity of Linn da Quebrada”. In: 44th Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences. São Paulo: INTERCOM.
Zacariotti, D. Massimini, A. (2021). “Subjection and Epistemic Violence in Conversion Therapies and Religious Discourse”. In: 44th Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences. São Paulo: INTERCOM.
Rocha, R.; Zacariotti, D. (2021). “Displaced authorship and audio-visibilities engaged in “Bixa Travesty”. REBECA: Brazilian Journal of Film and Audiovisual Studies. v. 9, n.3.
Almeida, G.; Zacariotti, D. (2021). “Baise-moi or laisse-moi te baiser: underground feminine and escapes from representations in the work of Virginie Despentes”. In: Résumés des communications Colloque Virtuel International Politiques et Récits du Corps.
Zacariotti, D. (2021). “From recognition to the redistribution of dissident genres based on language as power”. Journal Temática. v. 17, p. 61.
Zacariotti, D. (2020). “Possible knowledge practices for undisciplined bodies”. In: 43rd Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences. São Paulo: INTERCOM.
Molina, A.; Ferreira, G.; Zacariotti, D.; Silva, V. (2019). “Pornography and Imaginary: the problematic reproduction of fetishized bodies and subjectivities within porn films”. INICIACOM: Brazilian Journal of Scientific Initiation. v. 8, n.2, p.
Molina, A.; Zacariotti, D. (2018). “Transvestite sex as a political factor”. In: 56th International Congress of Americanists. Salamanca: ICA.
Molina, A.; Zacariotti, D. (2018). “Gender and Experience”. In: 1st Aquenda on Communication, Genders and Sexualities. Porto Alegre: UFRGS Publisher.
Molina, A.; Zacariotti, D. (2018). “Journalistic coverage related to the death of transvestites in Brazil: a portrait of disrespect for gender identity in the Laura Vermont case”. In: 41st Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences. São Paulo: INTERCOM.
Molina, A.; Zacariotti, D. (2017). “The fervor is also a fight”. In: 40th Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences. São Paulo: INTERCOM.
Molina, A.; Zacariotti, D. (2017). “Trans Identities on Tinder”. In: 39th Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences. São Paulo: INTERCOM.
Molina, A.; Zacariotti, D. (2017). “Pornoeducation: analysis of imaginaries generated in digital pornography”. In: 2nd SEJA. Goiânia: UEG Publisher.
Molina, A.; Zacariotti, D. (2017). “Binarity and sign in advertising films”. In: 2nd SEJA. Goiânia: UEG Publisher.
Gomes, V.; Zacariotti, D. (2016). “Research of texts on organizational strategy”. In: 15th SECOMUNICA. Brasília: UCB Publisher.
Presentations
“Baise-moi or laisse-moi te baiser: underground feminine and escapes from representations in the work of Virginie Despentes”, Colloque International Politiques et Récits du Corps, Paris, France, June 2022.
“Politics of presence and trans black authorship in Brazilian documentary”, XXIV SOCINE Meeting, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, October 2021.
“Aesthetics and politics in Linn da Quebrada's full political subjectivity”, 44th Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences (INTERCOM), Catholic University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, October 2021.
“Subjection and Epistemic Violence in Conversion Therapies and Religious Discourse”, 44th Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences (INTERCOM), Catholic University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, October 2021.
“Bubbles, Globes, and Foams: knowledge in a spherical and performative perspective of circulations”, Comunicon 2021, Superior School of Advertising and Marketing, São Paulo, Brazil.
“Micropolitical Performance Territories: the rise of queer bubbles in pharmacopornographic foam”, IV Bienal Latinoamericana y Caribeña en primaa infancia, niñez y youths, Manizales, Colombia, August 2021.
“It is Not Secret, it is Sacred: Tyler Glenn and the Audiovisibilities of Queer Dissensus in the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints,” The 56th Annual Conference of the Mormon History Association, Park City, USA, June 2021.
“Baise-moi or laisse-moi te baiser: underground feminine and escapes from representations in the work of Virginie Despentes”, Colloque Internacional Politiques et Réctis du Corps, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France, May 2021.
“I’m just Walter Mercado: iconography and iconoclasm as ruminant performative epistemology in Walter Mercado”, Mucho Mucho Amor International Symposium, Superior School of Advertising and Marketing, São Paulo, Brazil, April 2021.
“The production of knowledge from the documentary (re)presentation of a Bixa Travesty”, IV Student Conference on Communication Research, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil, February 2021.
“Possible knowledge practices for undisciplined bodies”, 43rd Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences (INTERCOM), Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, December 2020.
“The transvestite aesthetic-political body in contemporary Brazilian audiovisual”, 4th Meeting of Digital Networks and Activist Cultures, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, May 2020.
“Bixa Travesty – struggle and celebration of the woman's cock”, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, November 2019.
“Journalistic coverage related to the death of transvestites in Brazil: a portrayal of disrespect for gender identity in the Laura Vermont case”, 41st Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences (INTERCOM), Federal University of Mato-Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil , October 2018.
“Transvestite sex as a political factor”, 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, Spain, July 2018.
“Gender and Experience”, 1st Communication, Gender and Sexualities, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, January 2018.
“I know you want to like me: the influence of gender discourses on Facebook”, 3rd International Seminar Unfazendo Gênero, State University of Pernambuco, Campina Grande, Brazil, November 2017.
“Pornoeducation: an analysis of imaginaries generated in digital pornography”, 2nd SEJA, State University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil, October 2017.
“Binarity and Sign in Advertising Films”, 2nd SEJA, State University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil, October 2017.
“The fervo is also a fight”, 40th Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences (INTERCOM), Positivo University, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2017.
“Trans identities in tinder”, 39th Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences (INTERCOM), Federal University of Mato-Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil, May 2017.
Recognitions and Awards
Best Audiovisual Advertising Production for Internet of the Regional Intercom (2019);
Best Fiction Screenplay of the Intercom Regional (2019);
Best Moving Photography of the Regional Intercom (2018);
Best Jingle oh the Regional Intercom (2018);
Best Spot of the Regional Intercom (2018);
Best Poster the Regional Intercom (2018);
Winner of the Aberje University Award (2017);
Best Graphic Design of the Regional Intercom (2017);
Best Advertising Photography of the Intercom Regional (2017)
Best Motion Photography of the Regional Intercom (2017).