Name: Janaína Marques
Area of work: Directing
Edition: 2022
City: Brasília
State: Distrito Federal
E-mail: [email protected]
Janaína Marques is a filmmaker trained in Film Directing at EICTV (Cuba), with further studies in Film Industry Management at Universidad Carlos III in Spain. She also holds a degree in Journalism from the Federal University of Ceará. Her short film "The Minutes", "The Hours", one of EICTV’s most awarded works, premiered at the Cinéfondation section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2010 and went on to receive recognition at major international festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, San Sebastián, Biarritz, and Havana, including the Prix Radi from the Agence du Court Métrage Française. She later directed Madrid, screened internationally by the Instituto Cervantes. Her debut feature, I Built a Rocket Imagining Your Arrival, premiered at the Berlinale – Forum in 2026, where it received the Tagesspiegel Readers Jury Award. She is currently developing the animated feature The Eyes of the Crab.
Janaína is the director of "Amores Paraguayos," a project selected for the First Cut Lab Paradiso Brazil.
