Jhonnã Bao
Acting
Biography
Jhonnã Bao is an actress, screenwriter, director, and transmedia artist from the outskirts of São Paulo. Currently, she studies Film Direction at the International Cinema Academy. She is part of the audiovisual collective CONTRAPLANO. In 2021, she premiered her first authorial film called “Tenebrosas?”, a documentary that reflects the reinvention of social imaginaries about trans and transvestite bodies in everyday life. In “Erguida” she acts, writes the script, directs and executive produces.
Known For
While Amanda and Caio, a transgender couple, try to create a home together, they face professional problems, differences of opinion, and external pressures, depicting a journey of love, commitment, and personal discoveries. In this new chapter of their lives, they discover that the plans they made together may no longer make sense.
I Am Going to Miss You
Lázaro spends a lot of time at the gym, but the expected results never come… until one day he signs up for the premium plan
Lázaro's Temptation
Iara, who is in a relationship crisis, travels to the coast of São Paulo for a transcendental healing experience through the hands of the masseuse Elza. This encounter will change Iara's destiny forever.
Transe
After a severe nervous crisis, a young poet from the outskirts of São Paulo decides to raise his own voice.
Erguida
Maintained by a older men, Alina finds a shelter from the possessiveness of her sugar daddy in a LGBTQI+ fraternity in the center of São Paulo