Name: Wara
Area of work: Directing, Screenwriting
Edition: 2023
City: Fortaleza
State: Ceará
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wara-aymara-15b748230/
Director and screenwriter specialized in Fiction Directing at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Tv (Cuba) and graduated in Film and Audiovisual at the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC/Brazil). The thesis "Soberane" won the Pardino D'oro for best international short film at the 75th Locarno Film Festival. The short film “Quem te deu nome?” ("Who gave you a name?") was nominated for best film at FESSALP 2021 in the Videominute category. The feature film project "Quem deu de nome a Terra?" won the Prémio TFL Next, Pop Up Film Residence and Cinéma en Developpement at the 12th BrLab. They is currently developing the " mbar Project": A series of audiovisual works that, starting from the perspective of a racialized, queer body, in a foreign and/or inhospitable environment, search for belonging or assume the "non-place" as their true space and starting point, exploring the science fiction genre.
Wara was awarded a fellowship to attend the TFL Next Film 2023, in Italy.
