(Rio de Janeiro, 1994) is a director, creator and screenwriter. In her films, as well as in her dramaturgy for theatre, Gabriela has worked in different forms of autofiction. Her films and stories take place in a hybrid field between the documentary and the fictional narrative form. Her experience as a playwright and her parallel training in theatre and performance greatly influence the way she thinks about processes, productions, and working with actors. Her short films ‘Killing me Softly’ (2020) and ‘Eco de um soco no osso’ (2021), which were screened at festivals such as IndieLisboa, Curta Cinema, and Caminhos do Cinema Português, are examples of this and also present two other themes common to her projects: on the one hand, characters in a situation of moving to another country, immigration, feeling foreign and, on the other, the ‘strange’ representation of the passing of time. Her most recent project, the feature film ‘Estranho, estranho, estranho’ (Strange, strange, strange), is being tutored by Argentinian director Matías Piñeiro. Gabriela has a degree in Audiovisual (from UFRJ) and specialisations in Film Creation (from the Elías Querejeta Film School) and Literature (from the New University of Lisbon). As a scriptwriter, she has signed projects for Amazon, HBO, Globoplay, and RTP. She is a member of MUTIM – Women Workers of Moving Images.

(Fortaleza, 1991) is a Brazilian director, playwright and screenwriter based in Lisbon since 2014. He is studying for a PhD in Performing Arts and the Moving Image at the University of Lisbon/Polytechnic Institute, and has a Master’s degree in Multimedia Art from FBAUL (where he received the Faculty of Fine Arts/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Award). He has been working in permanent contact with the Performing Arts and Dance Dramaturgy since 2010, having directed films screened at festivals all over the world such as Locarno, Viennale, IDFA, Cinéma du Réel and Bafici. Retrospectives of his work have been shown in France (Cinemateca Francesa), Colombia, and the Netherlands (Rotterdam Festival). ‘António Um Dois Três’ (2017), a Portuguese-Brazilian co-production and his first feature film, premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival. ‘Life is Two Days’ (2022), his second feature, premiered in the international competition at FIDMarseille, where it received an honourable mention. ‘Greice’, his third feature, premiered in 2024, also at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

(1991) is an editor and filmmaker. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he currently lives in Lisbon, where he completed a master’s degree on realism and ghosts in cinema, under the guidance of Susana de Sousa Dias. He has edited films for directors such as Maria Clara Escobar, Leonardo Mouramateus, Diogo Baldaia, Helena Estrela, Yuri Firmeza, and Gabriela Giffoni. Ian is the founder of Filmes Fantasma, a company he shares with Gabriela Giffoni for the production and distribution of their films, which have been screened and awarded prizes at festivals in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Italy, Greece, Japan, the UK and the USA. He is also one of the founders of Laboratório da Cave, an artists’ collective for learning and working with 16mm film and analogue cinema, and a member of CORTE – the Portuguese Association of Film and Audiovisual Editors. He likes dogs and long walks.