Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1979. She graduated in cinematography from the University of Cinema, in Buenos Aires. Renée worked as an assistant director in Brazil, Argentina and Portugal. In 2009, she met the Krahô indigenous people. Since then, she has been working with the community, participating in the mobilization of a local collective of filmmakers. She made the feature “The Dead and the Others” (2018, 42nd Mostra), winner of the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.