Karina Mello

Director, screenwriter and actress .Graduated in Journalism. She attended the Film School Darcy Ribeiro with specialization in script. She participated in the Varilux film workshop in partnership with the European Audiovisual Script Conservatory, a Parisian school that became a reference for the training of TV scriptwriters in France under the guidance of François Sauvagnargues , fiction specialist and FIPA General Delegate of Biarritz. She participated in the direct film workshop with José Luis Guerin, an important Spanish filmmaker and the series workshop with David França Mendes. Actress with 20 years of career lived in NY for 3 years to study theater with John Strasberg. She was part of the casting of actors in NY agencies, such as Abrahan Arts, CED and Metropolitan agency. In Brazil he made several soap operas and serials on TV Globo. In April 2013 she shot her short film "Bianca" through her company S.A.I.D Films, in which she directed, scripted, produced and acted. The film was selected for NYIFF 2013 (NY Independent Film festival / L.A edition), exhibitions were held at the Charles Chaplin Building, for the Brazilian Film Festival of Montevideo 2013 (best short film award for popular vote). In Brazil, the film premiered at FEMINA 2014, the FICVINA 2014 (26th International Film Festival of Vina Del Mar, one of the largest festivals in Latin America supported by Ancine), at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2014 , recognized by the BAFTA in England, at the Toronto International short Festival 2014 (juri prize for best foreign short), at the official selection of Mumbai Woman's International Film Festival 2014, at the Fortaleza de Gênero de Fortaleza 2015 and also shown on Canal Brasil. Her second short just starting to go through the festivals , she directed, scripted and produced. The Spinning Top was selected at Cine-Tamoio Festival 2019( Award Best Actress to Heloisa Jorge), San Diego Black Film Festival 2020 (Award Best Foreign/Diaspora), Toronto Black Film Festival 2020(Official Selection)