Awards & Accomplishments.

Bilingual copywriter and award-winning scriptwriter | English & Portuguese.

I'm humbled to be an award-winning scriptwriter - creator and head writer of a 3-season comedy TV series, with films premiered at the Venice Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and BFI London, recipients of Best Dramatic Comedy (London Independent Film Awards 2025), Best Director (Noida International Film Festival 2024) and the RPT Channel Aquisition Award, among multiple international distinctions.

TV & Film.

Television

No Divã do Dr. Kurtzman

Creator, headwriter

Canal Brasil | 2013–2015

3 seasons

$Poster for the TV show 'No Div\u00E3 do Dr. Kurtzman' / P\u00F4ster do programa de TV 'No Div\u00E3 do Dr. Kurtzman'$

Contemporânea

Creator, headwriter

Currently at funding stage

Pilot Episode [password: teaser]

Film festival selections & Awards

Less than we want to take

Fiction | 2025 | 25 min

Awards / Nominations

Best Dramatic Comedy — London Independent Film Awards — Jun 2025
Best Supporting Actor Honourable Mention — Ice Film Awards — 2026
Best Dramedy Nominee — Atlanta Comedy Film Festival — 2026
Best Emerging Director — Nominee — Film Revolution Fest — Nov 2025
Best Mid-length Film — Semi-finalist — Film Haus Fest — Nov 2025
Best Directing Award — Semi-finalist — IndieMania Prague — Oct 2025
Best Drama — Semi-finalist — Area 51 Underground Film Contest — Oct 2025
Best Lead Actress — Nominee — Yeti Filmfest — Oct 2025
Best Supporting Actor — Nominee — Area 51 Underground Film Contest — Oct 2025
Honorable Mention — Red Movie Awards — Sep 2025
Short Narrative Award — Semi-finalist — Dumbo Film Festival New York — Sep 2025

Major selections

Semi-finalist — Faro International Film Festival (Cine Mediterrâneo e Mundo) — 2026
Semi-finalist — Lonely Wolf International Film Festival (LWIFF) — 2025
Semi-finalist — Filmonaco — 2025
Semi-finalist — Caçador de Filmes — 2025
Semi-finalist — Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival — 2025

$Poster for the film 'Less than we want to take' / P\u00f4ster do filme 'Less than we want to take'$

Instructions for crying

Fiction | 2023 | 20 min

Best Director | Noida International Film Festival | Jan 2024
Best Health and Welfare Film | Ponza Film Awards Italy | Dec 2023
Best Short-film Award Finalist | Mental Health Film Festival | Oct 2024
Best Editing | Cinema Father International Film Festival | Jun 2025
Best Actor | 7 Continents International Film Festival | Sep 2025
Narrative Short Award Semi-finalist | Iris Global Health Film Festival | Oct 2024
Honorable Mention | Covent Garden Film Festival | Dec 2023
Honorable Mention | RTF Realtime International Film Festival | Aug 2025
Honorable Mention | Wine Dark Short Film Festival | Jun 2024
Honorable Mention | All that Moves International Film Festival | Jun 2024
Honorable Mention | Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival | Dec 2023
Special Festival Mention | Indian World Film Festival | Mar 2024

First Act

Fiction | 2019 | 19 min

World Premiere: 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam | Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

Awards

Honorable Mention | Cine Tamoio | Brazil | 2019

Streaming platforms

Cardume Filmes

Major Selections

IndieLisboa | Herói Independente – Brasil em Transe | Portugal | 2019
BFI London Film Festival | Experimenta – Strategies of Refusal | UK | 2019
Dallas International Film Festival | Narrative Shorts Competition | USA | 2019
Glasgow Short Film Festival | “Brazil: Luto Pra Nós é Verbo” | UK | 2019
Kyiv International Short Film Festival | International Competition | Ukraine | 2019
Cine Ceará | National Competition | Brazil | 2019
Tenerife Short Film Festival | Competition | Spain | 2019
Filmfest Dresden | Competition | Germany | 2020
Short Waves Poznań | Competition | Poland | 2020
Festival Gent | International Shorts Competition | Belgium | 2019
Uruguay International Film Festival | Ibero-American Competition | Uruguay | 2019
Duhok International Film Festival | International Competition | Kurdistan | 2019
Zuma Film Festival | Competition | Nigeria | 2019
Goiânia Mostra Curtas | Competition | Brazil | 2019
ENTRETODOS | Human Rights Shorts Festival | Brazil | 2019
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art | Competition | Ukraine | 2020
Go Short – Nijmegen | Generations | Netherlands | 2021
Primavera do Cine | Lusophone Shorts | Spain | 2019
Exground Filmfest | Focus Brazil | Germany | 2019
My Film Ideology Program | China | 2021
Dotdotdot – Anatomy of a Protest | Austria | 2021

Brume

Fiction | 2018 | 14 min

Award

Prêmio Estímulo Short Film Production Fund | State of São Paulo | 2015

Major Selections

Mostra do FIlme Livre | 2018

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The Tuner

Fiction | 2012 | 15 min

Awards

SIGNIS Award | Special Mention | 34th Havana International Film Festival | 2012
Onda Curta Acquisition Prize | Channel RTP2 Portugal | 22nd Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival (Curta Cinema) | 2012
Honorable Mention | 16th Los Angeles Latino Film Festival | 2013

Selections

World Premiere | 69th Venice Film Festival | Orizzonti Short Film Competition | Venice, Italy | 2012
34th Havana International Film Festival | Latin American Competition | Havana, Cuba
37th Hong Kong International Film Festival | International Competition | Hong Kong
22nd Aspen Shortsfest | International Competition | Aspen, USA
61st Melbourne International Film Festival | International Shorts Competition | Melbourne, Australia
16th Los Angeles Latino Film Festival | International Competition | Los Angeles, USA
5th Milwaukee Film Festival | Competition | Milwaukee, USA
8th Sydney Latin American Film Festival | Official Selection | Sydney, Australia
13th Winter Film Festival of Cinemateca Uruguaya | International Short Film Competition | Montevideo, Uruguay
New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema | International Competition | Providence (RI) & New Haven (CT), USA | 2013
22nd Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival (Curta Cinema) | National Competition | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
16th Tiradentes Film Festival | Aurora Section | Tiradentes, Brazil
14th Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival | Juventude Section | Belo Horizonte, Brazil
14th Londrina International Film Festival | National Competition | Londrina, Brazil
Healdsburg International Short Film Festival | International Competition | USA | 2012
8th Cambuquira Film Festival (MOSCA) | National Competition | Brazil
MIMO Film Festival | National Shorts | Brazil | 2013
Cinesul – Ibero-American Film & Video Festival | National Competition | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 2013
Cinemúsica Festival | National Competition | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 2013
Move Cine Arte | Official Selection | Monte Verde, Brazil