Name: Fernanda Pessoa
Area of work: Directing, Screenwriting
Program: Bolsa
Edition: 2024
City: São Paulo
State: SP
E-mail: [email protected]
Brazilian filmmaker, primarily working with documentary and experimental cinema. She is a PhD candidate at ECA/USP, researching women's experimental cinema, and holds a Master's from Sorbonne Nouvelle. She directed the documentaries "Stories our cinema did (not) tell” (2017, Guarani Award for Best Documentary, DocLisboa, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Cinélatino Toulouse, Mostra de Tiradentes, Brasília Film Festival), “Arid Zone” (2019, Honorable Mention at DokLeipzig), and “Swing and Sway”,(2022, Sheffield DocFest, DokLeipzig, Olhar de Cinema, RIDM), as well as the short films Same/Different/Both/Neither (2020, IDFA, IDA Shortlisted, DOC NYC), “Order Prevails” (2022, It’s All True, BIENALSUR), and “Solidarity” (2022, Oberhausen). Berlinale Talents Alumni and part of the Paradiso Talent Network. Currently, she is working on the production of her fourth documentary, “Roofless”, and developing “Frame”, her first fiction feature, selected for EFM Fiction Toolbox and PAS Nantes.
Fernanda was awarded a fellowship to participate in Produire au Sud, and became part of the talent network.
