Lucas Litrento
Directing
Biography
Lucas Litrento is a writer, director and producer. He released the books Os meninos iam pretos porque iam (Iogram, 2019) TXOW (Edipucrs, 2020), a semi-finalist for the Oceanos Prize for Literature in 2021, and Pretovírgula (Círculo de poemas, 2023). He directed the short film circles(2020), The Mascot (2024) and Help a Brother Out (2025).
Known For
At a construction site, a delivery man lunches with his bricklayer friends and watches a crossfire between the engineer and the foreman.
Help a brother out
On the eve of leaving the informal work sector and being hired, Samuel is haunted by his work instrument: the engineer mascot.
The Mascot
These men are all dripping in sweat, but it doesn't matter.
Burn My Skin
I'm reading Malcolm X's biography and I've noticed that my brother is a lot like him: black history is circular.