BIOGRAPHIES

Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian artist who works in the fields of performance, direction, research and environmental artistic activism. She is a partner of Aruac Filmes and the creator of the Projeto Margens - On Rivers, Buiúnas and Fireflies, a multilingual project dedicated to artistic creation based on listening to the testimony of Brazilian rivers experiencing catastrophe. The scope of this project has already included plays (Guerrilla or For Land There Are No Missing Persons (2015) and Altamira 2042 (2019)), feature and short documentary films, publications, debates, workshops, the Buiunas network - a network between women, rivers and art - and, more recently, the acquisition of land on the banks of the Xingu River to create a space for artistic residence.

Altamira 2042 has integrated the programming of important festivals and theatrical spaces, such as the Wiener Festwochen, Festival D’automne à Paris, International Summer - Festival Kampnagel Hamburg, Baltic Circle, Holland Festival, Théâtre

Vidy-Lausanne, Centre Georges Pompidou and others.

Currently, Gabriela prepares her next work on the Tapajós River that will premiere in 2024 while directing, in partnership with Eryk Rocha, the film The Falling Sky based on the homonymous work of Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa and anthropologist Bruce Albert.

In her theater career, she has worked with directors such as Ariane Mnouchkine, Georgette Fadel, Felipe Vidal, Ivan Sugahara, Celina Sodré, Isaac Bernart and Pedro Brício. In the cinema, she acted in the films Anna by Heitor Dhalia, Breve Miragem de Sol and Jards by Eryk Rocha and O Duelo directed by Marcos Jorga. She worked as a producer, screenwriter and assistant director on the feature film Edna, a film produced by Aruac that had its world premiere at the prestigious Visions du Réel festival in Switzerland, in the international competition Burning Lights, in April 2021. She received the award for best actress at the Rio Festival for her work in the feature film Anna.