He is a Brazilian film producer and a partner in Minas Gerais’ based company Filmes de Plástico. He has produced some of the most important films in the new wave of Brazilian cinema, like award-winning titles The Day I Met You, Temporada, In the Heart of the World, Baronesa, Elon Doesn’t Believe in Death, The Hidden Tiger, She Comes Back on Thursday and Araby. In 2018, his production The Dead and the Others won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival’s section Un Certain Regard. It was his fourth film selected in the festival, after three previous entries at the Directors’ Fortnight. In 2022, his film Mars One was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Oscars®. He also had films selected to important film festivals like Rotterdam (a total of 11 selections throughout the years, including two Tiger Competition titles, in 2017 and 2019), Locarno (two selections this past decade), Berlinale, AFI, New Directors/New Films, Art of the Real, Montreal, Durban, BFI, Munich, Torino, Viennale, FID Marseille, Toulouse, Belfort, 3 Continents Nantes, Biarritz, Athens, Mar del Plata, Lima, Cartagena, Ficunam, Bafici, Jeonju, Melbourne, Macao, among many others.
