shorts &
features
Neirud
Writer, Director, Producer
Doc, 72min, Brazil, 2022 (distribution)
Sancho y Punta, Temporal Filmes
Confronting family secrets, I piece together the mysterious life of my aunt Neirud, a former circus wrestler known as "the Gorilla Woman."
Bete
Writer, Director
Fiction, feature script, Brazil (development)
Substâcia Filmes
An elderly professor tries to get around absurd situations in a collapsing country while trying to keep her job to pay for her mother's funeral.
One for the Road
Director, Producer, Cinematographer
Doc, 12min, USA, 2016 (DOC NYC)
As she moves from Brazil to NY, the filmmaker looks back at her grandma's migration as a way to find traces of her own identity.
Alone Together
Director, Producer, Cinematographer
Doc, 15min, USA (in post-production)
In a seniors' house in Queens, elders of different nationalities find distinctive ways of facing and coming to terms with the challenges of ageing and death.
House Without Furniture
Directed, produced, and edited by Fernanda Faya, Zoya Baker, and Nadia Mohamed.
Doc, 6min, USA, 2015
House Without Furniture is a film portrait of Sylvia and Khaled Mohamed's love story in New York in the 1970s.