Rodrigo Séllos

Rodrigo Séllos (38) is a director, editor and script writer based in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. With a degree in Cinema, he has worked over the last 13 years on feature and short films, TV shows for broadcast channels and streaming, music videos, webseries and institutional videos. In 2020 he won the prize for Best Film at the 53rd Brasília Film Festival, the most important festival in Brazil, with the feature documentary "Searching for Makunaíma". The film was also part of the official selection of the Festival de Cine de La Habana (Cuba) in 2021. In 2022, the film was screened in the "Brazilian Modernism at 100" film program at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Princeton University, commemorating the centennial of the São Paulo "Modern Art Week". His first documentary feature "Here Wackos are not swept under the rug" was screened at Rio Int'l Film Festival 2010 (Brazil) and the 25th Festival del Cinema Latino Americano Trieste, in Italy. As editor, Rodrigo worked on ten feature films, including "StreetKids United II - The Girls from Rio", produced by Stephen Daldry and Mike Downey; Memórias do Grupo Opinião - the opening film for the 24th It's All True Film Festival, and the fiction "Doidas e Santas", released in brazilian theaters. In 2022, Séllos edited the North American feature documentary "Diamond Rivers - The story of Chapada Diamantina", directed by Bill Benenson and produced by Terry Dawson - to be released in 2023. Séllos also directed and edited music and commercial videos, and produced documentaries screened at the Festival de Cine Latino Americano (Cuba), China Internacional New Media Short Film Festival and Festival de Cine de Lanzarote, in Spain. Among his latest work on TV as a director, we can highlight "Por um respiro" and "Happy Hour com Mariana Ximenes", shown on the Brazilian streaming service Globoplay and GNT. Rodrigo is developing his first fictional feature film called "Macuxi".