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Ana Luiza Azevedo was born on 24 November 1959 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is a writer and director, known for Before the World Ends (2009), Dona Cristina Perdeu a Memória (2002) and Through Ernesto's Eyes (2019).- Director
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Caroline Fioratti is a Brazilian creator, screenwriter and director. She created, scripted and directed the series A Grande Viagem, (The Great Journey) nominee as Best Minisseries at the International Emmy Awards - Kids 2018. Her first feature film was the coming of age story Meus 15 Anos, a box office success in Brazil. She also directed the two seasons of the medical series Unidade Básica for NBC Universal Channel - Latin America. She will soon release a new feature film, Amarração do Amor, a comedy about love and tolerance. At the moment, Caroline is working in the post-production of her third and most personal feature film. She is also on post-production of a TV Series, Os Ausentes, for TNT/Turner, an action-crime procedural that she is the main director. Caroline Fioratti is compromised to create films and series that entertain but with a sensitive look to relevant issues such as The Alzheimer, Woman Rights, Public Health, Mental Diseases, Teen Conflicts, Religious Tolerance, among others themes.- Director
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Cininha de Paula was born on 23 June 1953 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is a director and actress, known for A Vida Alheia (2010), De Perto Ela Não é Normal (2020) and Final Feliz (1982).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Cristiane Oliveira is known for Mulher do Pai (2016), The First Death of Joana (2021) and Messalina (2004).- Actress
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Elisa Gomes is known for Unhas e Outras (2011), MARIA: Não esqueça que eu venho dos trópicos (2017) and A República dos Anjos (1991).- Director
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Emilia Silveira is known for Silêncio no Estúdio (2016), Setenta (2013) and Tente entender o que tento dizer (2019).- Editor
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Julia Murat is a director, editor and producer, known for Found Memories, 2011, Pendular, 2017. Julia has also a long time experience working as an editor, assistant director, and camera assistant. She edited MARÉ, our love story, by Lucia Murat, premiered in Berlin Film Festival, and OS DIAS COM ELE (2013), by Maria Clara Escobar, best film at Tiradentes Film Festival, among others. She directed and produced the documentary DIA DOS PAIS premiered at Cinéma du Reel in 2008. Her first fiction film FOUND MEMORIES premiered in Venice and was selected by San Sebastian, Toronto, Rotterdam, New Directors New Films. The film won 39 international prizes, including best film at Abu Dhabi, Sofia and Lima. Her second film PENDULAR won Fripresci's award at Berlin Film Festival 2017 and was selected by several festivals around the world. Julia produced EXCELENTÍSSIMOS, a documentary by Douglas Duarte released in Brazil in 2018. She also co-produced the Paraguayan LAS HEREDERAS, Best actress and Alfred Bauer Silver Bears, and Fipresci's award at Berlinale, 2018. Julia co-wrote SHINE YOUR EYE, by Matias Mariani, premiered in Berlin Film Festival 2020.- Director
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Melissa Dullius is known for Muito Romântico (2016), Triangulum (2009) and In the Traveler's Heart (2013).- Director
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Patrícia Rubano is known for It's All a Plan (2017) and Almoço Executivo (1996).- Writer
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Paula Gomes is known for Jonas e o Circo sem Lona (2015) and Son of Ox (2019).- Director
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Susanna Lira is a brazilian documentarist that focus on themes like human rights, politics and violence. She is known for documentaries like Mataram Nossos Filhos (2016), Legítima Defesa (2017), Torre das Donzelas (2018) and creating and directing the series Rotas do Ódio (2018), produced by Universal Channel. Susanna Lira was born in Rio de Janeiro in february, 1975. She is post-graduated on Human Rights.
She won several awards, including Best Documentary and Best Directing in the important Festival do Rio, in 2018, for her film Torre das Donzelas, in which she interviews women who were imprisoned and tortured in the brazilian military dictatorship while asking them to rebuild the tower in which they were jailed.- Producer
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Tatiana Sager is known for Olha Pra Elas (2023), Central - O poder das facções no maior presídio do Brasil (2017) and Enjaulados (2015).- Editor
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Tatiana Lohmann is known for SLAM: Voz de levante (2017), My Fortress (2020) and Em Todo Canto (2008).- Actress
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Marina Person was born on 15 February 1969 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress and director, known for Califórnia (2015), Almoço Executivo (1996) and Ela e Eu (2021).- Director
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Laís Bodanzky made her directorial debut with the short film Red Card, about a girl surrounded by boys discovering her sexuality. This award-winning short was selected for the New York Film Festival in 1995.
She was recognized as a filmmaker with the feature film Brainstorm (2001), a joint production between Brazil (Buriti Filmes, Dezenove and Gullane) and Italy (Fábrica Cinema - Marco Müller) that won various awards and introduced actor Rodrigo Santoro to the world.
Just Like Our Parents, her fourth feature film, premiered at the 67 Festival in Berlin (Panorama Special) in 2017, swathed in fiery feminist debates and nominated for the Teddy award. It opened to raves in the international film press. It was the most award-winning Brazilian film that year.
Laís has made other highly acclaimed films, such as The Ballroom (2007), a joint production with France - Canal Arte, and The Best Things in the World (2010), which debuted at the Rome Film Festival. In addition to film and TV documentaries, including Cine Mambembe - Cinema Discovers Brazil and Olympic Women, for the ESPN channel.
Filmmaker Luiz Bolognesi is her partner at the Buriti Filmes production company, as the producer behind the feature films Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (Annecy Cristal Award for Best Animation in 2013) and Ex-Shaman (Berlin/Panorama Special Jury Award 2018).
The daughter of filmmaker Jorge Bodanzky, the man behind Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica (Semaine de la Critique Cannes 1976) and Jakobine (1979), Laís grew up around filmmaking. Raised between the São Paulo neighborhoods of Higienópolis and Perdizes, she studied Theater with theatrical director Antunes Filho and ended up receiving a degree in Film from Faap.
Over 15 years, she has coordinated the educational Tela Brasil social projects, showing movies in low-income areas of Brazil, fostering the Brazilian film industry and bringing over one million people to movie theaters, most for the first time in their lives.- Writer
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Ana Luiza Machado da Silva Muylaert (born 21 April 1964), known professionally as Anna Muylaert, is a Brazilian film and television director, producer and screenwriter. Anna studied filmmaking at the School of Communications and Arts at University of São Paulo (USP) from 1980 to 1984. She became a film critic for IstoÉ and O Estado de S. Paulo and in 1988 she joined the staff of Rede Gazeta's program TV Mix. In 1999, she worked as an editor and reporter on TV Cultura's Matéria-Prima. She also wrote scripts for the Cultura programs Mundo da Lua (1991-92) and Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum (1994-97).- Editor
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Fernanda Cardoso hails from Sao Paulo, Brazil and holds a film production degree from the University of Southern California. She was a recipient of the Ila Rosenbaum Screenwriting Scholarship at the University of Miami, the Barbara Boyle Scholarship from Film Independent and was a quarter-finalist of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 2014. Fernanda wrote and directed the feature film "Bloomington".- Director
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Sandra Werneck was born on 5 May 1951 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is a director and producer, known for Little Book of Love (1997), Amores Possíveis (2001) and Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004).- Writer
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Born in Rio de Janeiro, Lúcia Murat was member of the Brazilian leftist "guerrilha" in the hardest times of military dictatorship in Brazil (1968-1979). She was arrested and tortured in prison, and this experience is highly influential in all of her work. Undoubtedly Lúcia Murat is the most sensitive and critic female director in Brazil's new cinema.- Director
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Fernanda Vareille is known for The Madness Among Us, A Loucura Entre Nós (2016) and La bascule (2016).- Actress
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Leandra Leal's career is what you can consider a mathematic phenomenon by the sheer number of works accomplished in such a short amount of time. At 33 years old and with a career that spans 32 years (she first stepped onto a stage in the arms of her mother, the actress Angela Leal, in the role of a baby), Leandra has collected 29 awards, the majority of them for her work in cinema, placing herself amongst the most disputed actresses in Brazil. Presently, the actress has participated in 24 films. In TV, the total between novelas, series and mini-series comes out to 29 projects. In theater, 7 projects. But Leandra is more than an actress. She has directed plays and music videos and, through her production company, Daza Cultural, holds the annual Festival Adaptação, which explores the relationship between cinema and literature. She is also directing her first documentary, "Divinas Divas," a musical film about the first generation of Brazilian transvestites.- Director
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The São Paulo -based filmmaker Tata Amaral in one of most talented and awarded filmmaker o Brazil's recent filmography. Her work stands out for its experimentation and originality.
Hr debut feature " A Starry Sky" (1996)was considered by the critics one of the three most important Brazilian movies of the 90's and was screened in Iffs such Toronto, Rotterdam, and Berlin. Her second Feature, "Throught The Window"(2000) was awarded with severals nation and international prizes.
"Antonia" (2006), her third feature film had its world premiere at Toronto IFF, it was acquired by HBO Latin America and FOX Channels, and it inspired the homonymous TV series exhibited by Tv Globo, Brazil's biggest Tv channel. The series was nominated for the international Emmy Awards in 2007.
Her film "Today" (2013) was the biggest winner at 2011s Brasilia Film Festival of Brazilian Cinema and "Bring Inside"(2016) was awarded Best Film by the audience at São Paulo Latin American Film festival in 2015 She also directed the documentary Tv series "Rua!"(2013), for the São Paulo Municipal Department of Human Rights, and "Causando na Rua"(2016), for CineBRASiLTV channel. She also directed episodes for the 2nd and 3rd seasons of HBO's Original Brazilan TV series Psi (2015- 2016) Currently, Amaral is working on the post-production of her latest feature, "Express Kidnapping", which will be released in the first half of 2018, and on the 2nd season of the series "Causando na Rua".
Currently (2017), Amaral is working on the post-production of her latest feature, "Expreess Kidnapping", which will be released in the first half of 2018, and on the 2nd season of the Tv series "Causando na Rua".- Writer
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Isa Grinspum Ferraz is known for Marighella (2012), O Povo Brasileiro (2000) and A Cidade no Brasil (2019).- Actress
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Carla Camurati was born on 14 October 1960 and worked as a biology teacher before she became an actress. Her first film was "O Olho Mágico do Amor" (1981). For this work she got a prize of Best Supporting Actress. She then begun a successful career on television working in soap operas like "Sol de Verão" (1982), "Livre para Voar" (1984) and "Fera Radical" (1988). In 1983 she took photos for Playboy. In 1985 she got a Gramado Prize for her role in "A Estrela Nua". In 1987 she won the Kikito prize for her role in "Eternamente Pagu". In this year she also directed her first film, but her first success as a director was "Carlota Joaquina" (1995). In 2001 Carla directed "Copapcabana", starred by Marco Nanini. According to a recent interview, Carla and Nanini had long conversation and so Carla got interested in "Irma Vap - O retorno", a play Nanini stars with long time friend Ney Latorraca. Carla then decided to adapt the play for the cinema.- Marina Meliande is known for A Fuga, a Raiva, a Danca, a Bunda, a Boca, a Calma, a Vida da Mulher Gorila (2009), Mormaço (2018) and The Joy (2010).
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Angela Zoé is the founder of Documenta Filmes, where she works as Director and Screenwriter. Recently, she released the documentary film HENFIL (2017) and directed the TV movie HE WAS LIKE THAT: ARY BARROSO (2019), to be screened on the Music Box channel. Besides the documentary series HOW MANY FIT? (2020) which will be shown on Cine Brasil TV, Angela is currently producing and filming the feature ALCIONE: I AM THE BROWN (2019), in co-production with Globo Filmes and Canal Brasil. She also wrote the script and executive produced the documentary BETINHO - THE HOPE EQUILIBRIST (Victor Lopes, 2015), winner of the trophy Redentor for best feature documentary by the popular jury with in partnership with Globo Filmes and Globo News. Angela was responsible for scripting and directing the documentary MY NAME IS JACQUE (2016), released in theaters in 2016. In addition to several prizes and participation in festivals, this film is requested for the most diverse events related to the debate of gender, sexuality and human rights issues.- Director
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Tatiana Issa is a 3 times EMMY Award winner executive producer, showrunner & director. She has also been nominated to 10 EMMY Awards (at the 64th & 65th Television Academy of Arts & Sciences) and is the co-founder of Producing Partners & ART DOCS with 400+ episodes produced in more than 80 countries and over 30 hit primetime television series and films for channels like HBO, HBO Max, Disney+, Amazon Studios, Smithsonian Channel, Youtube Originals, Food Network, Discovery+, TV5 Monde, TV Globo, Globoplay and many others. Tatiana is a member of the Television Academy and a juror of the International Emmy Awards as well as a proud member of New York Women in Film & Television.
She's the CEO and co-founder of Producing Partners & ART Docs and the creator, Executive Producer, showrunner and Director of numerous hit primetime television series such as the acclaimed "A Brutal Pact, the Murder of Daniella Perez" for HBO MAX, "Coming Out Stories (Fora do Armário)", a 10 one-hour episodes documentary series for HBO Latin America, the acclaimed art series "Geografia da Arte", in conjunction with renowned institutions such as the Keith Haring Foundation, Pina Bausch Foundation, Donald Judd Foundation among many others; "Immersive.World" a new ALL ARTS original series, "Bertha Lutz, Women and the U.N. Charter", a feature documentary for HBO, "Pedro pelo Mundo", a travel and current affairs series shot in over 50 countries, "Destino Con Sabor", a gastronomy/travel series for Food Network and many others.
Tatiana, is New York-based with more than 50 International awards for her feature film, Dzi Croquettes, featuring Liza Minnelli. The film became one of the most awarded documentaries in Brazilian History and has been shown in prestigious venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Haus der Kulturen der Werld, in Berlin, and on more than 60 countries around the world, followed by a theatrical release in the USA, Europe and Brazil. The film received outstanding reviews and got major media attention by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, among many others. Having had the opportunity to live all over the world, Tatiana has studied internationally with concentrations in language, Cinema & TV, art & literature. She's polyglot and fluent in 6 languages.- Director
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Andrea Tonacci was born in 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and producer, known for Blablablá (1968), Serras da desordem (2006) and Bang Bang (1971). He died on 16 December 2016 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.- Director
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Sandra Kogut was born in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is a director and writer, known for Campo Grande (2015), Mutum (2007) and Three Summers (2019).- Director
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Eliane Brum is known for Uma História Severina (2005), Gretchen Road Movie (2010) and Laerte-se (2017).- Director
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Marcia Paraiso is known for Sobre Sonhos e Liberdade (2020), Moon in Sagittarius (2016) and Terra Cabocla (2015).- Director
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Eliane Caffé was born in 1961 in São Paulo, Brazil. She is a director and writer, known for Narradores de Javé (2003), The Cambridge Squatter (2016) and Kenoma (1998).- Director
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Monique Gardenberg was born on 27 July 1958 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She is a director and writer, known for Benjamim (2003), Ó Pai, Ó: Look at This (2007) and The Interview (1995).- Director
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Malu de Martino is a Brazilian film director, writer, and editor born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1960. The 58-year-old is best known for her films "So Hard to Forget" (2010), "Margaret Mee e a Flor da Lua" (2012) and "Mulheres do Brasil" (2006). According to an interview she did with Kate Lyra, Malu de Martino focuses on visual arts within her films, and combines both documentary and fictional techniques. She has been influenced by Cinema Novo, a genre and movement of film noted for its emphasis on social equality that rose to prominence in Brazil during the 60s and 70s. However, she identifies more closely with 'Auteur Cinema,' or a theory of filmmaking in which the director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture.- Director
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Ana Carolina was born on 27 September 1943 in São Paulo, Brazil. She is a director and writer, known for Sea of Roses (1978), Paixões Recorrentes (2022) and Das Tripas Coração (1982).- Director
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Cecília Amado was born in 1976 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an assistant director and director, known for Capitães da Areia (2011), The Thorn and the Rose (2000) and Peligrosa obsesión (2004).- Cinematographer
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Lea Glob was born on 20 August 1982 in Mariager, Denmark. She is a cinematographer and director, known for Olmo & the Seagull (2015), Apolonia, Apolonia (2022) and Venus (2016).- Director
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Petra Costa was born on 8 July 1983 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She is a director and producer, known for The Edge of Democracy (2019), Olmo & the Seagull (2015) and Undertow Eyes (2009).- Director
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The writer and director was born in Campinas, Brazil. Her solo work includes the award-winning short films O Duplo, which won a Special Mention at La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, and The Passage of the Comet, as well as the feature film Necropolis Symphony, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Collaborating with Marco Dutra, she wrote and directed the short films The White Sheet, A Stem, The Shadows and We Were Born Today, and the feature films Hard Labor and Good Manners, the latter winning the Special Jury Award at the Locarno Film Festival.- Writer
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Vera Egito is known for Restless Love (2016), A Batalha da Rua Maria Antônia (2023) and Bald Mountain (2013).- Director
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Daniela Thomas is a multimedia artist. She directs and writes films, creates opera and theater sets, writes and directs plays, designs and curates exhibitions. She was born and is based in Brazil, but her work has been seen, exhibited and played around the world. It all started in the early 80s at La MaMa Experimental Theater in New York. She then moved back to Brazil, where she partnered with Walter Salles, writing and co-directing three features, Foreign Land (1996), Midnight (1998) and Linha de Passe (Palm D'Or for Best Actress to Sandra Corvelloni at the 2008 Cannes Festival), and many shorts, including the Paris, Je T'aime segment Loin du 16e (2006) and the Half the Sky segment Back (2018). Thomas also directed the features Sunstroke, with Felipe Hirsch (2009), Vazante (2015) and O Banquete (2016). She was one of the directors of the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics and the Flaghandover Ceremony in the 2012 London Olympics.- Cinematographer
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Andradina Azevedo is known for 30 Years Blues (2019), Deep Blue Dream (2013) and Para que não me ames (2008).- Writer
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Dida Andrade is known for 30 Years Blues (2019), Deep Blue Dream (2013) and Para que não me ames (2008).- Director
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Born in Mairi, a small town in the interior of Bahia, Brazil where there are no movie theaters to this day, Muritiba was already an adult when he first plunged into the darkness of a theater to watch a movie. The son of a truck driver and a housewife, the filmmaker studied History in São Paulo, and later moved to Curitiba, where, without finding a job, he applied for a job in the State Justice System, where he worked as a jailer for seven years. While still working as a jailer, Muritiba learned that he could have his working hours in the public service credited if he was enrolled in some college course. He then went to study Cinema and, between one class and another, decided to merge the two worlds through which he passed: that of jail and that of the art of filmmaking. This is how his Prison Trilogy was born, made up of two short films and a documentary feature, projects that served as a release from prison life and the gateway to his cinematographic career.
With stints at Sundance ("Rust," 2018), Venice ("Tarantula," 2015, "Private Desert" 2021), San Sebastian ("To My Dead Beloved," 2015, "Rust," 2018) and Cannes - Critics Week ("Quadrangle," 2013), the films written and directed by Aly Muritiba have won over 200 awards at film festivals. For TV and streaming channels, Muritiba has directed the series "The Hypnotizer" - S02 (HBO), "Jailers" S02 (Globo), "Freitas Brothers" (Space), "Brotherhood" (Netflix), "The Evandro Case" (Globoplay) and "Cangaço Novo"(Amazon Prime Video).
In 2013 his short film "The Factory" was on the Oscar shortlist. In 2021, in addition to directing "The Evandro Case," the true crime series nominated for International Emmy Awards, Aly released the feature-films "Jesus Kid", (Best Direction and Best Screenplay Awards in the Festival of Gramado and "Private Desert" (Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival and Brazilian representative in the 2022 Oscars race).- Director
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Suzana Amaral was born on 28 March 1932 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was a director and writer, known for Hour of the Star (1985), Uma Vida em Segredo (2001) and Hotel Atlântico (2009). She died on 25 June 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.- Director
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Brazilian filmmaker Anita Rocha da Silveira's sophomore feature "Medusa" (2021) premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight. It went on to participate in festivals such as TIFF, Sitges Film Festival (Best Direction - New Vision Section), Tromsø Int. Film Festival (Best Film), IndieLisboa (Special Jury Award), Rio Film Festival (Best Film, Best Direction and Best Supporting Actress), Palm Springs Int. Film Festival (Honor Mention), Viennale, Jeonju Int. Film Festival and IFFR. "Medusa" was acquired by Music Box Films and enjoyed a successful limited run in US theaters. Her first feature "Kill Me Please" (2015) was screened at the Orizzonti section at Venice Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, SXSW, IndieLisboa, Filmfest München, Gotebörg Film Festival, Cali Film Festival (Best Film), Rio Film Festival (Best Direction and Best Actress), among others. Prior to her full-length features, Anita wrote, directed and edited three short-films: "The Noon Vampire" (2008), "Handball" (2010, FIPRESCI Award at the Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen), and "The Living Dead" (2012, Directors' Fortnight selection). Anita was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro.- Editor
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Lívia Perez is known for M is for Mothers (2023), Lampião da Esquina (2016) and Who Killed Eloá? (2015).- Director
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Eliza Capai is an independent documentary filmmaker who focuses on social issues. She is especially interested in amplifying voices from marginalized sectors of society in order to foster empathy in audiences. Thinking about creative modes of production, narration, and distribution are also priorities in her work.
In a very productive and ascending moment of her career, Eliza premiered her most intimate documentary, "Incompatible with Life", at It's All True International Film Festival. The film was awarded Best Feature and qualified for the Oscar.
Capai also signs the direction of the first Netflix's Brazilian true crime series - "Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime" - in which she interviews for the first time the confessing defendant of one of the most famous crimes in Brazil. The series was released on the VOD platform in 190 countries simultaneously in July 2021.
Her previous work, the awarded documentary "Your Turn" (directed and scripted by Eliza Capai), is about the student takeover of schools in response to educational budget cuts in Brazil. It premiered at Berlinale (2019) and was awarded with the International Amnesty Prize and Peace Prize. Since that, the film was released in 100+ festivals and received 20+ awards.
Her second movie, "The Tortoise and the Tapir" (72', 2016 - directed and scripted by Eliza Capai), investigates the gigantic hydroelectric plants built and planned in the middle of the Amazon forest during Brazil's worst drought in decades.
Her first feature, Here Is So Far (71', 2013 - directed and scripted by Eliza Capai), is based on encounters with women during a seven-month trip in Africa. In its premiere at the Rio International Film Festival New Trends, the documentary was awarded Best Feature Film. It received multiple awards in Brazil and abroad.
Capai graduated from University of São Paulo with a degree in journalism and was a fellow at MIT Open Documentary Lab.- Director
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Eliza Capai is an independent documentary filmmaker who focuses on social issues. She is especially interested in amplifying voices from marginalized sectors of society in order to foster empathy in audiences. Thinking about creative modes of production, narration, and distribution are also priorities in her work.
In a very productive and ascending moment of her career, Eliza premiered her most intimate documentary, "Incompatible with Life", at It's All True International Film Festival. The film was awarded Best Feature and qualified for the Oscar.
Capai also signs the direction of the first Netflix's Brazilian true crime series - "Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime" - in which she interviews for the first time the confessing defendant of one of the most famous crimes in Brazil. The series was released on the VOD platform in 190 countries simultaneously in July 2021.
Her previous work, the awarded documentary "Your Turn" (directed and scripted by Eliza Capai), is about the student takeover of schools in response to educational budget cuts in Brazil. It premiered at Berlinale (2019) and was awarded with the International Amnesty Prize and Peace Prize. Since that, the film was released in 100+ festivals and received 20+ awards.
Her second movie, "The Tortoise and the Tapir" (72', 2016 - directed and scripted by Eliza Capai), investigates the gigantic hydroelectric plants built and planned in the middle of the Amazon forest during Brazil's worst drought in decades.
Her first feature, Here Is So Far (71', 2013 - directed and scripted by Eliza Capai), is based on encounters with women during a seven-month trip in Africa. In its premiere at the Rio International Film Festival New Trends, the documentary was awarded Best Feature Film. It received multiple awards in Brazil and abroad.
Capai graduated from University of São Paulo with a degree in journalism and was a fellow at MIT Open Documentary Lab.- Director
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Helena Solberg was born in 1942 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She is a director and producer, known for Vida de Menina (2003), Double Day (1976) and Palavra (en)cantada (2008).