director screenwriter casting
based in lisbon · working internationally
Translating ideas into Cinema
Brazilian director and screenwriter based in Lisbon, working across fiction, intimate character driven cinema and commercial storytelling.
His films explore queer identity, migration, family tensions, class struggle and intimate human experiences through a visceral and socially grounded lens.
His work has circulated through international festivals and industry platforms including the Marché du Film, the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Queer Porto and SXSW. His award winning short film Forgotten Memories From The End Of The World received the Best Artist's Film award at the BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival.
As a screenwriter, his feature projects have been developed through platforms such as GUIÕES, FRAPA, Script Lab PLOT and DRAMA.PT. Alongside his authorial work, he has collaborated across international productions for streaming, television and commercial brands, including an advertising award at South by Southwest.
Currently focused on internationally driven co-productions, he develops feature films and series centered on emotionally charged characters, visual atmosphere and human complexity, moving between queer narratives, immigrant experiences and stories shaped by contemporary social realities.
Stay true to yourself.
— Working principle since the first short film.
Challenge your inner self-sabotaging voice.
Under DBG Casting, he works as a casting director for advertising and commercial productions in Portugal and internationally. For enquiries or collaborations, please get in touch.
Feature in development · Proof of concept · Short film available via private screener upon request
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
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.
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.
Open to feature collaborations, short film co-productions, advertising direction, and casting briefs. DBG Casting (commercial) shares the same inbox for now.
