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Gandja Monteiro

Gandja Monteiro

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Biography

Gandja Monteiro is a director. She directed Season 1, Episodes 5 and 6 of Netflix's hit series Wednesday, the final three episodes of Marvel/Disney+'s Agatha All Along, and two episodes of Netflix's The Witcher. Gandja also wrapped a block of episodes for Hulu's Paradise City, created by Dan Fogelman. Her previous work includes serving as the Producing Director on Season 4 of Showtime's The Chi, where she redefined the show's visual style and directed nearly half the season, including the finale. Gandja also helmed the final two episodes of Amazon's Panic (executive produced by Adam Schroeder), episodes of Netflix's Brand New Cherry Flavor (created by Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion), and the concluding episodes of AMC's Dead City (The Walking Dead spinoff). Raised between New York City's Lower East Side and Rio de Janeiro, Gandja began making films at 17 and has been travelling the world since infancy, experiences that have profoundly influenced her storytelling. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, a participant in AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, and a fellow of Fox's TV Directors Lab and Universal's Feature Directors Program. Her directing career spans over a dozen countries, four continents, and eight languages. It includes commercials for major brands like Nike, Adidas, Google, Coca-Cola, AT&T, and Chevrolet, as well as music videos for artists such as Marcelo D2 and Pusha-T. Gandja is set to direct the feature film Sabu for Warner Bros., produced by MACRO, with Anthony Ramos and Bad Bunny starring. The film chronicles the life of Hector "Sabu" Monsegur, founder of the hacker group LulzSec, an offshoot of "Anonymous." Additionally, she is collaborating with producer Stacey Sher (Pulp Fiction) and Orion Pictures on the pre-apocalyptic horror film Hags.

Known For

Wednesday
8.3

Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.

Wednesday

2022
The Witcher
7.9

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

The Witcher

2019
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
7.8

After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the truth about her family—and the mysterious organization known as Monarch.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

2023
Paradise
7.5

The tranquility in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world's most prominent individuals explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.

Paradise

2025
The Chi
7.9

A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own someday, but is conflicted between the promise of a new life and his responsibility to his mother and teenage brother back in the South Side.

The Chi

2018
Pluribus
7.9

The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.

Pluribus

2025
The Walking Dead: Dead City
7.9

Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

The Walking Dead: Dead City

2023
Agatha All Along
7.5

Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road.

Agatha All Along

2024
In the Dark
7.7

Murphy is a flawed and irreverent woman who just happens to be blind and is the only “witness” to the murder of her drug-dealing friend, Tyson. When the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at Guiding Hope, the guide-dog school owned by her overprotective parents.

In the Dark

2019
VisionQuest
N/A

After the events of WandaVision, White Vision struggles to connect with the memories given to him as he lacks the emotions or feelings associated with them.

VisionQuest

2026
Panic
7.3

In the forgotten town of Carp, Texas, Panic is the only way out. Every summer the graduating seniors risk their lives competing in a series of challenges for the chance to win life-changing money. After the death of two players the stakes—and danger—have never been higher.

Panic

2021
Vida
6.4

Two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn't be more different or distanced from each other are forced to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and surprising truth about their mother’s identity.

Vida

2018
Brand New Cherry Flavor
7.0

A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.

Brand New Cherry Flavor

2021
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along
8.1

Join Kathryn Hahn, Aubrey Plaza, Joe Locke, and more as they invite viewers behind-the-scenes of Agatha All Along.

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along

2024
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N/A

Talent, a working title, is the story of a failed songwriter, to be played by Erivo, who returns home to Chicago to lead a group of at-risk youth in their annual talent show.

Talent Show

Other Times
N/A

The documentary series makes an original and faithful portrayal of what it's like to age in Brazil today, in the first season. On the second season, the young people are explored, showing what they think and who they are.

Other Times

2017
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teen drama series based on Lauren Oliver's novel, about graduating seniors in a small Texas town who play a dangerous game of challenges for a cash prize, with the first season telling a complete story and leading to its cancellation after one season. The show stars Olivia Welch, Mike Faist, and Jessica Sula, and follows protagonist Heather Nill as she's forced to play the high-stakes game, confronting her fears and rivals like Dodge.

PANIC

2021