Person
João Cândido Zacharias
Directing · Born 1981-11-14 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography
João Cândido Zacharias (Rio de Janeiro, 1981) is a director and screenwriter. His short film Sandra Calling (2017) won the Felix Award at the Rio Film Festival and was selected to festivals in Brazil, Europe and the US. His following short, The Last Romantics (2019), screened in over 35 film festivals around the globe. He has recently directed his first feature, the queer horror A Herança (Birthright). His main focus of interest is genre cinema, ranging all scope from horror to thriller, action, crime and fantasy. As an LGBTQIAPN+ person, he is also very interested in portraying characters from that community and addressing, in cinematic and narrative ways, issues and themes regarding them.
Known for
Linguinha x Mr. Yes
Cientista Louco
OK
Assistant Director
A Jaula
Adaptation
Sandra Calling
Director
The Last Romantics
Director
Danado de Bom
Writer
The Best of All Worlds
Writer
Birthright
Director
Filmography
- 2024The Best of All WorldsWriter
- 2024BirthrightDirector
- 2022A JaulaAdaptation
- 2019The Last RomanticsDirector
- 2017Sandra CallingDirector
- 2016Danado de BomWriter
- 2007OKAssistant Director
- 1971Linguinha x Mr. YesCientista Louco
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