Director and scriptwriter. She produces an authorial brand of cinema that interweaves popular and scholarly repertoires; her plots are experienced by characters that waver at the fringes of social organizations inventing themselves their own spaces. She earned a degree in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil, and then studied Film for a year at Cuba’s Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV). She started her filmmaking and scriptwriting career with the short films O Nariz (1988), Arabesco (1990) and Caligrama (1995). Her feature film debut was Kenoma (1997), and she was widely acclaimed for her Narradores de Javé (2003). Lives and works out of São Paulo.