Licínio Silveira Azevedo (Licínio de Azevedo, Licínio Azevedo, Novo Hamburgo, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1951) is a Brazilian–Mozambican journalist, film producer, screenwriter, and film director of award-winning documentaries and feature films.

[1][2][3][4] Born in Porto Alegre in 1951, journalist Azevedo left Brazil during the military dictatorship there for post-revolutionary Portugal in 1976, continuing to Guinea-Bissau where he trained journalists.

He interviewed members of the liberation movement PAIGC on their struggle against Portugal and published the results with Da Paz Rodrigues in their book Diário da libertação : a Guiné-Bissau da nova África (Liberation diary: the Guinea-Bissau of the new Africa, 1977).

Living in Mozambique since the 1970s, he reported on Frelimo's struggle in Relatos do povo armado (Stories from the armed people, 1983).

[6] Avezedo published a number of books in Portuguese, such as:[7] Azevedo's films include:[2][6][8][9][10] Azevedo's films obtained seven prizes and three nominations, including:[6]