Karen Akerman
Directing
(56 years old)
Partner of the independent production company Pela Madrugada. She worked as editor in over forty films (features and shorts). She was awarded the Grand Brazilian Film Award - Best Editing for Fiction (2015) and Best Documentary Editing (2009); ABC award for Best Editing Fiction (2015); among many others.
She made five short films. Her work has been shown at festivals in Rotterdam, Uppsala, Cine//B, Alcine, Brasilia, Cine PE and awarded at festivals in Tabor, DocLisboa, Rio Film Festival, Short Film, Santa Maria da Feira, Recife window, Cine Scheme New.
As a producer she was responsible for more than twenty short films. She collaborated as Curator, programmer and jury in festivals and shows in Brazil and Portugal.
When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her moth...
Sergio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engin...
Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of t...
Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at ...
Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and e...
In a time of timeless and revolutionary talents, Wilson Simonal shined as nobody before an...