Eliciana Nascimento is an award-winning film director and cinematographer with an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. Her short film, The Summer of Gods, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014 and received several awards from a variety of international film festivals. Nascimento is currently an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University where she teaches cinematography and film production. She is also working as director-cinematographer of her new documentary in the African Diaspora.