
Gabriel Salazar
Acting
Biography
Gabriel Salazar is a Brazilian actor, director, writer, producer and composer born in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. Graduated in Performing Arts (UFSC), Gabriel started acting in 2013. He was a part of the lead cast in "180 Graus" ("180 Degrees" - 2016-2018), a web series directed by Phil Rocha - the first season was also released as a feature film and presented at the 2017 Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival. He also had a recurring role in the HBO/O2 Filmes series "Pico da Neblina" ("Joint Venture" - 2019-2022) directed by Fernando Meirelles and Quico Meirelles. He began his directing career with the short documentary "Sonata Julieta" (2022); then directed "Devaneio" (2023) and "Duração-Diferença" (2023), both experimental documentaries.
Known For

Set in a fictional modern-day Sao Paulo, where marijuana has been legalized, this series follows 29-year-old Biriba, a drug dealer who decides to give up his criminal life and enter the legal drug sales industry. Unfortunately for Biriba, going straight is more difficult than he could have imagined.
Joint Venture

Inspired by Lois Patiño's short movies project called "Paisaje-Duración" (Duration-Landscape) and Hiroshi Sugimoto's photo series "Seascapes", "Duração-Diferença" (Duration-Difference) reveals the difference through duration, through time; this short experimental movie seeks to capture, as Patiño and Sugimoto achived, the immanence as the entrance for something more - or something in between.
Duration-Difference

A "short film gift" documentary that shows how Alzheimer's has affected and affects Julieta. These are affective movements that appear in the game between: pauses and flow, approaches and distances, music and silence.
Julieta Sonata

Six teenagers go through life changing events while they try to keep a very strong friendship with each other.
180 Degrees - The Movie

Reverie. Daydream. Fantasize. Digress. The static look in absence, the look that is lost trying to be present. Everyday scenes, desires, feelings and impulses present and re-present; and how this affects the body.
Reverie

Matheus is a student who recently lost his parents in a plane crash and his boyfriend in a car accident. Alone and vulnerable he is teleported by an Alien who seeks to steal the humans identities while pretends to be his dead boyfriend.
Incubador

Pulse is the heart of music. A series of uniform beats that are audible or implied and repeat themselves. It is the relationship between the beats and their silences. The pulse is also the artist's unique expression—their heart. And Murilo is getting ready to perform his drum solo. He practices. Repeats. Tries to find his own pulse.
PULSE
Upcoming documentary feature.
Assim Disse Zoroastro

A short student film.