Fernanda P.

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Fernanda Pessoa is a Brazilian filmmaker, working primarily on documentary, experimental cinema and videoinstallations. PhD candidate at University of São Paulo (ECA/USP), she holds a MFA in Film Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, under Philippe Dubois’ direction. In 2017, Pessoa released her first feature documentary "Stories our cinema did (not) tell”, screened and awarded in several international festivals, distributed by Brazilian Netflix. Her second long documentary “Arid Zone” received an Honorable Mention at Dok Leipzig and is available in international streamings. She was a Berlinale Talents in 2019. Her work has been screened in some of the main documentary festivals in the world, such as IDFA, RIDM, DOC NYC, DocLisboa, Brasilia Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Cinélatino Toulouse, and in institutions as BIENALSUR, REDCAT/CalArts, IMS (Institut Moreira Salles) São Paulo’s Museum of Sound and Image, Paço das artes, among others. She’s currently working on the documentary “Swing and Sway”, supported by the Visions Sud Est Fund and selected for the Sheffield Doc Arts Talent Market, for Arché at DocLisboa and the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum, and on a short film called “Order prevails”, commissioned by the Videoart Award at Fundação Joaquim Nabuco.

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