Brazilian filmmaker based in Berlin, João holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing from Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, supported by a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

He previously graduated in Philosophy and Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and studied Audiovisual Media at the University of São Paulo.

His mid-length musical Ash Wednesday, about police brutality in Brazil, premiered at the Berlinale.

His graduation film Fission, a feature-length documentary on Germany’s nuclear phase-out, screened at CPH:DOX, DOK.fest Munich, Kraków, Tallinn Black Nights, among others, and is streaming on ZDF.

João is an IDFAcademy alumnus and a recipient of the Gerd Ruge Grant for his new documentary The Wars We Play.