Loli Menezes

Fame for: Directing

Biography

Brazilian filmmaker and producer, she studied cinema at the University of Southern Santa Catarina. Her debut short, “Ocorredor”, was made when she was still a student and won 10 awards at national festivals. With “Isto não é um Filme”, she was among the finalists of the AXN Film Festival, showing her short film throughout Latin America. With her last short “Selma after the Rain”, she toured 17 countries and won 9 awards, including Best Brazilian Short Film – BIMIFF – Brazil International Monthly Independent Film Festival (USA 2020) / Best Drama Short – Annual CPH Film Festival (Copenhagen 2020) Special Mention in the Women’s Fights and Rights Competition – Porto Femme (2020); Best Direction, Best Actress, Best Editing – Short Taquary (2020); Best Direction – Mix Brasil (2019); Honorable Mention for best narrative short (ISA Hollywood – IMDB); Special Mention (London-X4 Short Film Festival SPRING 2019); Indicated to represent Brazil in the Iris Prize LGBT + Film Festival 2020. She coordinated, produced and co-directed for 3 years series docs for the Rede Globo affiliate in Santa Catarina (NSC-TV). Her work focuses on direction, production, art direction and costumes for fictions and documentaries, for Cinema and TV, having produced more than 40 works between short films, medium docs, features, series, video clips and visual arts projects. She is a founding partner of Vinil Filmes, one of the most active production company in South Brazil. She is currently finishing her first feature documentary “Uncle Tommy”; developing her first feature film “Sangue de Groselha”(project awarded by Mercado Entrefronteras and Madrugada Sangrenta – Roger Corman special); and the Horror Island series – First Season: The Cartilage (script published in Graphic Novel by Darkside – expected to launch in the first half of 2021).