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Cannes 2026 selection
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director screenwriter casting
DaniloBastosGodoy
based in lisbon · working internationally
director screenwriter casting
based in lisbon · working internationally
currently distribution · Homeseek
Brazilian director and screenwriter based in Lisbon, working across cinema, advertising and short form with selections at Cannes Short Film Corner, Aesthetica and the international festival circuit. Open to collaboration with producers, cinematographers and casts.
His shorts have been backed by international co-productions and screened at Cinemateca Portuguesa, Queer Porto, MIX México and Mansfield. As a screenwriter he has placed at Guiões, FRAPA and Script Lab PLOT — three feature scripts currently in development.
Raw emotional honesty. Striking visual poetry.
— working principles · since 2012
Under DBG Casting he serves advertising and commercial productions in Portugal and internationally — casting work funds the directorial practice and stays a separate channel.
Feature in development · proof of concept at Cannes 2026
After a burnout, a Brazilian woman returns to her mother's quiet village in Portugal and discovers a clandestine world of cruising and suppressed desire. She teams up with a widowed gay man to create a hidden refuge, but the village's self-appointed moral guardians are ready to punish those who step out of line.
Feature in development · Guiões · PLOT · FRAPA
The arrival of a red shipping container in the coast of Brazil, delayed for months, unravels in a single day the life of a family that has lived for years in Portugal. As Júlio prepares for his final exam to become a helicopter pilot, his father quietly faces unemployment, while the stepmom receives troubling medical news, each trapped in a private odyssey of grief after the death of the youngest son. Over the course of an atypical moving day, pain and frustration collide with buried desires and fragile masculinity, pushing them toward destructive choices as their only way forward.
Feature in development · FRAPA 2023
In a hyper-sexualized fitness underworld, a naïve yet disciplined personal trainer skyrockets to viral fame when his body becomes an object of obsession, pulling him into a seductive spiral of power, money, and desire. A magnetic guru invites him to an exclusive retreat where masculinity, control, and sexuality are pushed to their limits. His transformation into a mythic "Minotaur" reveals a dark truth: in a world where the body is currency, ultimate success may cost him his identity, his humanity and his soul.
Short in development · inclusive arthaus drama
Inácio is a deaf mechanic who cannot keep his hands clean. In a macho workshop environment, he becomes aware of his own gentleness and realizes that, in order to feel comfortable in his relationship with his girlfriend, he will have to face the most opposite environment of his daily life: a beauty salon.
Short in development · social realism
When a call-center worker of Angolan descent copies his boss's apartment key to help a Cape Verdean mother facing eviction, a sudden blackout puts his plan at risk and exposes the brutality of class and belonging.
seeking producers & funding
Short in post-production · BR/PT co-production
A Brazilian mother living in Lisbon is summoned to a meeting about her two-year-old daughter. A polite conversation with a Portuguese school coordinator gradually exposes cultural prejudice, subtle xenophobia and the politics of motherhood.
seeking post-production funders & servicesOpen to feature collaborations, short film co-productions, advertising direction, and casting briefs. DBG Casting (commercial) shares the same inbox for now.
