Biography
Born in Brasilia in 1964, she is a Brazilian-Dutch documentary filmmaker who studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. Her films have screened at international festivals and won a number of awards. In 2013 the Board of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights awarded her the Marek Nowicki Prize for her entire oeuvre and her outstanding engagement with the topic of human rights via the medium of film.
Source: 68. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)