
Gabriela Amaral Almeida
Writing
Biography
Gabriela Amaral Almeida is a director, screenwriter and playwright. Master in literature and horror film at UFBA (Brazil) and specializing in screenwriting at Cuba's International Film and TV School (EICTV). Directed many award winning short-films, and has released two fictional features.
Known For

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.
Young Hearts

With no money and a sick young son, Angel returns to the underworld of fashion and luxury. Giovanna believes that Angel killed her father and will do anything to put her in jail. As a result, they start a personal war, which involves Cristiano, a private investigator.
Hidden Truths 2

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Casos e Acasos

Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.
Castaways

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Venice 70: Future Reloaded

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Coffin Joe

After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.
When I Was Alive

A woman and her daughter move into a house with a panic room, a secret space where residents can hide in case of danger. When alleged burglars break into the house, they take refuge in the room, until they discover that it is precisely there that the trio of intruders are looking for.
Quarto do Pânico

Martina, who has Alzheimer's, has been searching for her grandson for over three decades. Discovering he is in Brazil, her long and solitary journey becomes an intense struggle against time and oblivion.
A Procura de Martina

A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint – criminals and customers alike – and situations corrode into a nightmare state, guided by manipulation and raw compulsion.
Friendly Beast

Based on the book O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha, the story combines real world and fantasy, dream and determination, with a surprising end, even for a fairy tale. The movie shows the fight of the fairy tale characters, now adults, who come together to recover the fable of the Little Ugly Princess, a beautiful Princess with a strange name, which only makes sense for those who know her story. The problem is that children and adults have forgotten the story of the Little Ugly Princess, which is as wonderful as other major fables for children. Cinderella brings together other fairy tale characters to meet the writer who keeps, lost in a small notebook, the Little Ugly Princess story.
Xuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly Princess

When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things. Childhood becomes a saga. And the frustrated parenthood turns into a conviction.
The Father's Shadow

One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.
Terno

Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.
Estátua!

At her only child's 9th birthday, Lucas, Estela, a telemarketing operator, plans a party that has minimal chances of success.
The Comforting Hand

At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair.
Uma Primavera

A subtle morning, in the subtle life of Judite and the subtle Eduardo, marked by macabre and not at all subtle circumstances.
A Sutil Circunstância

Cristiane Jordan, or Cris Negão, as she was called, was a transvestite who worked as a bawd in downtown of São Paulo known by her violent methods to control the other transvestites. Hated and feared by a legion, she also had her fans until she was tragically murdered with two shots in the head. The documentary is a dive into the transvestite universe through the stories of this legendary character of São Paulo's underworld.
Who's Afraid of Cris Negão?

The story of a family who has their lives crushed by the tragedy of the floods in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)