A journalist, filmmaker, and playwright, born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, in 1960. He graduated in Film and Journalism from the Fluminense Federal University, studied cinema at the New York Film Academy, and holds a PhD in Arts from the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) at the University of São Paulo. He was part of the Playwriting Circle led by director Antunes Filho at CPT for four years and served as editor of Caderno 2 for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. He made films like “On the Fringes of São Paulo - Homeless” (2003), “The Amazon Midwives” (2004), “From Grief to Struggle” (2005), “Navegar Amazônia” (2006), “Squatting on the Fringes of São Paulo” (2006), “Jardim Ângela” (2007), “Talking Eyes” (2007), “Skin Felt” (2008), “On the Fringes of São Paulo: Scavengers” (2008), “The Babaçu Breakers of Brazil” (2009), “Cuba Libre” (2010), “The Last Word Is the Penultimate” (2012), “Until Next Sunday” (2016), “Four Sisters” (2017) and “Jacó Guinsburg - An Intellectual on Stage” (2023) — all of them exhibited at the Mostra.