Person
Karen Akerman
Directing
Biography
Partner of the independent production company Pela Madrugada. She worked as editor in over forty films (features and shorts). She was awarded the Grand Brazilian Film Award - Best Editing for Fiction (2015) and Best Documentary Editing (2009); ABC award for Best Editing Fiction (2015); among many others. She made five short films. Her work has been shown at festivals in Rotterdam, Uppsala, Cine//B, Alcine, Brasilia, Cine PE and awarded at festivals in Tabor, DocLisboa, Rio Film Festival, Short Film, Santa Maria da Feira, Recife window, Cine Scheme New. As a producer she was responsible for more than twenty short films. She collaborated as Curator, programmer and jury in festivals and shows in Brazil and Portugal.
Known for
As Canalhas
Editor
Espero que Esta te Encontre e que Estejas Bem
Editor
Fire
Director
America
Editor
Aurora
Editor
Raul Seixas: Let Me Sing
Editor
Lilith
Editor
October Is Over
2015
Lands
Editor
Na Ilha
Self
Filmography
- 2026FunkEditor
- 2026EclipseEditor
- 2026Drenched in BloodEditor
- 2025AmericaEditor
- 2025I Only Rest in the StormEditor
- 2025Raul Seixas: Let Me SingEditor
- 2025AuroraEditor
- 2024SulfurDirector
- 2024GreiceEditor
- 2024The Fisherman's DaughterEditor
- 2023Aunt VirginiaEditor
- 2023Guarda Vieja 3458 timbre 3/6Director
- 2023Helena de GuaratibaProducer
- 2023The Soul of ThingsProducer
- 2022LilithEditor
- 2022Secret FriendEditor
- 2022Espero que Esta te Encontre e que Estejas BemEditor
- 2022The Wind Blows the BorderEditorial Consultant
- 2021Hilda's Short SummerEditor
- 2021The FeverEditor
- 2021Depois da PrimaveraEditor
- 2020Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a SubmarineEditor
- 2020Mulher OceanoEditor
- 2019Na IlhaSelf
- 2019Nona. If They Soak Me, I'll Burn ThemEditor
- 2018The Father's ShadowEditor
- 2018The Dead QueenEditorial Consultant
- 2018The TrialEditor
- 2018In a Foreign CountryDirector
- 2016ConfidentDirector
- 2015Future JuneEditor
- 2015Maybe Desert Perhaps UniverseDirector
- 2015HopefulsEditor
- 2015October Is Over
- 2014O Senhor do LabirintoEditor
- 2013A Wolf at the DoorEditor
- 2013Parque SoviéticoEditor
- 2013Tales of the TideEditor
- 2013As CanalhasEditor
- 2012The GravediggerEditor
- 2012Feijoada CompletaEditor
- 2011FireDirector
- 2010Who lives in my mindEditor
- 2009LandsEditor
- 2009Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It WasEditor
- 2009Arca D'ÁguaEditor
- 2009AlaskaEditor
- 2008A party that fell from the skyDirector
- 2007MarginEditor
- 2006Breathless
- 2005Gaijin 2: Love Me as I AmEditor
- 2003Porcos CorposEditor
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