Director (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil). Her first feature film, the semi-documentary Que bom te ver viva (1988), had its international premiere at the Toronto Festival, and revealed a film maker dedicated to political and women’s issues. In it we can find testimonies of women tortured during the military dictatorship intercalated with fictional scenes having Irene Ravache as protagonist. Among several awards, the feature film was chosen best film by the official jury, by the popular jury and by the review in the 1989 Brasília Festival.
The political concern returns in Doces poderes (1996), this time under the point of view of the marketing of election campaigns. The film had its premiere in 1997 at the Sundance Festival and in the same year, was screened at the Berlin Festival. In 2000 she released Brava gente brasileira, about the relation between colonizer and the Indians in the countryside of Brazil.
In 2003 she filmed Quase dois irmãos - a political drama about the conflict between the middle class and the slum in three different times and situations - which gave her several awards, among them best direction and best Latin American film by Fipresci in the Rio Festival of 2004, best film at the First Amazonas Film Festival and best film at the Mar Del Plata Festival 2005.
At the Rio Festival of 2005 was the premiere of the documentary O olhar estrangeiro and, in the 2007 edition, Maré, nossa história de amor, a joint production Brazil-France. In 2008, Maré was selected for the Panorama section of the Berlin Festival. Her new fictional feature film, A memória que me contam, was filmed in Paulínia during the months of May and June of 2011.
