
Name: Ana Julia Travia
Area of work: Directing, Screenwriting
Edition: 2019, 2024
City: São Paulo
State: São Paulo
E-mail: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anajuliatravia/
Ana Julia Travia graduated in Audiovisual Studies from ECA, USP. She directed the short films Outras (2017), SAMPLE (2018), Cartas de Amor (2022), the music video O que se Cala (2018) by Elza Soares, and the film Entenda o Processo Colonial em 5 Minutos (2019), part of the play Black Brecht: E se Brecht fosse negro? She also edited the short films Eu só queria que você dissesse (2016), Peripatético (2017) – winner of the jury award at the 50th Brasília Film Festival, Mato Adentro (2018), Você tem olhos tristes (2020) – winner of Best Editing at the 48th Gramado Film Festival, and Semana que vem te prometo Palmares (2023). She worked as a script assistant on the series Ninguém Tá Olhando, which won Best Comedy at the International Emmy Awards. She was also a script collaborator on the Globoplay series Rota 66 - A Polícia que Mata, worked on the script and directing team of A História Delas (Star+), and was an assistant director for the MAX series Cidade de Deus - A Luta Não Para. She edited the video for Aline Motta's art installation A água é uma máquina do tempo, exhibited at the 35th São Paulo Biennial - Choreographies of the Impossible. In 2024, her first feature film project, Sereia LTDA, was selected for the 14th BRLab, where it won the acquisition award from the distributor Vitrine Filmes and the Paradiso Award from the TFL Next Feature Film program. She is also the creator and producer of the Festival Abya Ayla Nagô, which aims to give visibility to Black and Indigenous filmmakers' cinematic productions in Brazil. Ana Julia was the winner of the Diadorim Award and received a fellowship for the 2019 Summer Intensive Course of the Master's Program in TV Screenwriting at Stony Brook University, and became part of the Talent Network. In 2024, she won the Paradiso Award at BrLab.