Festivals and awards
BEING BRAVE
short
Awards: Outstanding Achievement Award for Short Film and Cinematography (Max Putintsev) at World Film Carnival, Singapore 2021
Award: Best International Short Film at 4th FestCine Pedra Azul, Domingos Martins ES, Brazil - 2021
Awards: Best Canadian Short Film, Best Cinematography (Max Putintsev), and Best Production Design (Helen Kotsonis) at Canadian Cinematography Awards Festival, Toronto Canada - 2021
Short Film Corner/Rendez-vous Industry at Cannes, France - 2021
Short Film Market at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France - 2021
ShortFest Film Market at Palm Springs International ShortFest - Palm Springs, USA - 2021
Film in Focus Festival, Bucharest Romania - 2021
OutFest Peru, Lima Peru - 2021
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence USA - 2021
Bucharest ShortCut CineFest, Romania - 2021
Ontario International Film Festival, Toronto Canada - 2021
Anatolia International Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey - 2021
Shockfest Film Festival, USA - 2021
18th El Lugar Sin Limites LGBTQ+ Festival, Ecuador - 2021
Lake View International Film Festival, India - 2021
IMPEDIMENTO (Offside)
feature-length
Award: Best Romantic Comedy International Film Festival of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 2010
Award: Best First-Time Director International Film Festival of Pucket Thailand - 2009
Award: Best Feature Film, Runner-up Project Twenty 1 – Philadelphia USA - 2008
Award: Silver Lei Award Excellence in Filmmaking Honolulu International Film Festival, Hawaii
USA - 2009
Award: Best Feature-Length Film Al Sawy International Film Festival, Cairo Egypt - 2009
Nominations: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (José Ávila), Best Actress (Regina Margon) and Best Supporting Actor (Thiago Resende) British Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA - 2009
First Film Festival of the Town of Conselheiro Lafaiete, MG Brazil - 2008
Third Film Festival of the Town of Itabira, MG Brazil - 2008
Anchorage International Film Festival, Alaska USA - 2008
Reel World International Film Festival, Toronto Canada - 2009
International Film Festival of Zanzibar Tanzania - 2009
International Film Festival of Kenya - 2009
International Film Festival of Clonmel Ireland - 2009
Famílias
short
Award for Best Foreign Film - Canadian Diversity Film Festival, Toronto - 2018
Award of Distinction Canada Shorts – Canadian & Intl. Short Film Fest, Canada - 2017
NSI Online Short Film Festival, Canada- 2017
The IndiEarth Xchange, India - 2017
Culver City Film Festival, USA - 2018
Bucharest ShortCut CineFest Romenia – 2018
Lebanese Independent Film Festival, Beirut - 2018
Moving Pictures Festival, Kalmthout Antwerp, Belgium - 2018
Queen Palm International Film Festival Palm Springs, USA - Dec 2018
The Kiss
short
Short Corner Cannes, France, May 2017
Award: Best International Short Film LA Brazilian Film Festival, USA, Nov 2017
Award: Runner-Up Public’s Choice XX Intl. Short Film Festival of the Bay of Pasaia, IKUSKA Spain - Nov 2018
Nomination: Best Intl. Short Film ME (Milledgeville & Eatonton) Film Festival, Georgia, USA - 2018
Nominations: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Costumes at FESTICINI - Festival Intl. de Cinema Independente, Guararema - São Paulo, Brazil, Nov 2018
Caribbean Film Festival & Market, Bahamas, Nov 2017
Our City Festival, Cape Town, South Africa, Nov 2017
FARCUME Festival Internacional de Curta Metragens de Faro, Aug 2017
Vasteras Film Festival, Munkgatan, Sweden, Sep 2017
Orlando Film Festival, Orlando USA, Oct 2017
Festival Venezolano del Cine de la Diversidad, Caracas, Venezuela, Oct 2017
Queer Streifen-Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Nov 2017
Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges de Villa-Seca, Spain, Oct 2017
Queer Kampala International Film Festival, Kampala, Uganda, Dec 2017
DIGO - Festival Internacional de Diversidade Sexual e de Gênero, Goiás, Brazil - 2018
Bengaluru Intl. Short Film Festival Bangalore Karnataka, India - 2018
Festival Cine Zaragoza, Spain - Nov 2018
Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival, USA - Nov 2018
Santo Domingo Outfest - Festival Internacional de Cine GLBT, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Nov 2018
Séptimo La Otra Banqueta - Festival de Cine por la Diversidad Sexual, Guatemala - Nov 2018
International Queer Film Festival Merlinka Belgrade, Serbia - Dec 2018
XIV FESTIMATGE - Festival de la Imatge de Calella , Catalonia, Spain - April 2019
41st Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes en San Roque, Spain - June 2019
Festival Internacional de Cine LesBiGayTrans Asunción, Paraguay - Jul 2019
Filmmaker International Film Festival Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain - Nov 2019
Festival Espacio Seis, Panama City, Panama - Jun 2020
Fem Tour Truck Itinerant Film festival, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain - Dec 2020
Mom’s the Word
short
Award: Best Comedic Film The Out & Loud Pune International Queer Film Festival, India - Apr 2018
68th Montecatini International Short Film Festival – Montecatini, Italy - Oct 2017
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest London, UK - Nov 2017
Queer Kampala International Film Festival – Kampala, Uganda Dec 2017
I Hella Love Shorts, USA - Jan 2018
Pride Film Festival, Chicago USA - Feb 2018
Corvallis Queer Film Festival, Oregon USA - Feb 2018
SPLICE Film Festival Erie Pennsylvania, USA - Jun 2018
Korea Queer Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea - July 2018
Windy City International Film Festival, Chicago, USA - July 2018
Queerbee LGBTQ Film Festival London, UK Aug 2018
International LGBTQ Coming of Age Short Film Festival San Francisco, USA - Sept 2018
Perth International Queer Film Festival Australia Sept 2018
Painting the Spectrum LGBTQ + Film Festival Georgetown, Guyana - Sept 2018
HolebiKort Film Festival Belgium - Nov 2018
Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges Mal Del Cap, Ibiza Spain - Nov 2018
Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival, USA - Nov 2018
26th Mix Brasil Festival São Paulo, Brazil - Nov 2018
Santo Domingo Outfest - Festival Internacional de Cine GLBT, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Nov 2018
International Queer Film Festival Merlinka Belgrade, Serbia - Dec 2018
Queen Palm International Film Festival Palm Springs, USA - Dec 2018
Séptimo La Otra Banqueta - Festival de Cine por la Diversidad Sexual, Guatemala - Nov 2018
XIV Zinentiendo, Muestra de Cine LGTB, Huesca, Spain - May 2019
Festival Internacional de Cine LesBiGayTrans Asunción, Paraguay - Jul 2019
Queerbee LGBTQ Film Festival South Jersey, USA Nov 2019
Festival Espacio Seis, Panama City, Panama - Jun 2020
boyOHboy Films Marathon, Paris, France - Oct 2020
Fem Tour Truck Itinerant Film festival, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain - Dec 2020
The apportionment (A partilha)
short
Awards: Best Comedy, Fan Award, and Audience Award at The MinIndie Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA - Feb 2021
Orlando Film Festival, USA - Oct 2018
Cefalù Film Festival, Palermo, Italy - Aug 2019
9th Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival, Munbai, India - Feb 2019
X FIBABC - Festival Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes, Madrid, Spain - Nov 2020
3rd. INCORTO Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico - 2018
Duellum
short
Short listed to Marquee on Main Film Festival, Washington North Carolina USA - 2017
Short listed to AFC Global Fest, Kolkata, India - 2017
The Day Mary Pickford Fell Off the Screen
short
Calgary International Film Festival, Canada - 2005
Backwards
short (film school)
Audience choice for Best Film First Night Screening at Concordia University, Montreal Canada - 2000