ACADEMIC BACKGROUND


• 2026-2028
Master of Arts in Literature
Concentration in Literature and Other Media
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Brazil


• 2023-2024
Diploma in Audiovisual Preservation and Restoration
Sociedad por el Património Audiovisual
Argentina


• 2013-2017
Bachelor's Degree in Cinema and Video
Universidade Estadual do Paraná
Brazil


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


• 2025 - To Date
Sesc Paraná - Paço da Liberdade
Audiovisual Curator and Programmer; Coordination of the Permanent Project for Development and Experimentation in Video Art and Audiovisual


• 2026
Lumen Film Festival - Rio de Janeiro Independent Film Festival
Curator - Short Films


• 2025
Festival de Brasília de Cinema Brasileiro
Short Film Curatorship Committee

Lumen Film Festival - Rio de Janeiro Independent Film Festival
Artistic Director and Curator - Short Films

Sesc Cinema Showcase
Curator - Short and Feature Films


• 2024
Ecrã Festival of Cinema and Experimental Arts
July 27-31, Cinemateca do MAM / Estação Net Botafogo / Arte SESC
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Short Film Curator


• 2023
Ecrã Festival of Cinema and Experimental Arts
June 29 - July 3, Cinemateca do MAM / Estação Net Botafogo
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Curator of the Stan Brakhage Special Program


• 2022
Retrospective Program - Rogério Sganzerla 75 Years
August 13 to 28, Cinemateca de Curitiba
Curitiba, PR
Organized by: Coletivo Atalante – Funded by Fundação Cultural de Curitiba
Curator


• 2019–2021
Histor(ies) of Cinema
August 2019 – August 2021, Cinemateca de Curitiba
Curitiba, PR
Organized by: Coletivo Atalante – Funded by Fundação Cultural de Curitiba
Curator and Programmer


PARTICIPATION


• 2025
Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival
Member of the Jury – Mirada Paranaense Section

Selected for the Critical Residency of the 28th Tiradentes Film Festival

Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes
A Flor do Mal – about "Sem Título #9: Nem Todas as Flores da Falta" by Carlos Adriano. Click to access (pt/br)
Um Tigre de Plástico no Telhado – about "Um Minuto É Uma Eternidade Para Quem Está Sofrendo" by Wesley Pereira de Castro. Click to access (pt/br)
Natureza do Experimento – Overview of the 28th Tiradentes Film Festival. Click to access (pt/br)

• 2024
La Furia Umana
"Nature of Disappearance: Parallel I–IV, by Harun Farocki"
ISSN: 2037-0431
Click to access

Selected as a critic by Talents Press Rio, a program by Berlinale Talents, Festival do Rio, Goethe-Institut, FIPRESCI and Abraccine.

Berlinale Talents Press
“Faust In a Glass Tower” Click to access
Berlinale Talents Press
“Suspension and Disbelief” Click to access

• 2022
Program – Raised Fists, Camera Rolling: The São Paulo Metallurgical Strikes of 1978–1980 and the Rise of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Organized by: Cinelimite
Intro to "Trabalhadores, Presente!" (1979), by João Batista Andrade Click to access (pt/br)

• 2020
Metrô – Festival de Cinema Universitário
Jury Member
Official Jury Award Statement Click to access (pt/br)

• 2019
REBECA – Brazilian Journal of Film and Audiovisual Studies
Vol. 9, No. 1
Time in “Já Visto, Jamais Visto” by Andrea Tonacci,
“João Bénard da Costa: Outros Amarão as Coisas que Amei” by Manuel Mozos,
and “Visitas ou Memórias e Confissões” by Manoel de Oliveira
Click to access (pt/br)

• 2018
Filme Cultura Magazine
Dossier "Women, Cameras and Screens"
Not a Home Movie: “No Home Movie” by Chantal Akerman Click to access (pt/br)

• 2017
HATARI! Magazine
Dossier "Japanese Cinema"
"Banshun" by Yasujiro Ozu Click to access (pt/br)

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