Zita Carvalhosa

Director of the Sao Paulo Film Festival.

From 1983 she has been directing the production company Filmes where projects from independent filmmakers are supported.
As producer of a wide range of feature films, television series and documentaries she is the responsible of a variety of renowned films, from a very high quality and an innovative character. Her full dedication to the short film has pushed her into producing more than 20 titles which have been awarded inside and outside Brasil, this way trying the whole world get to know the major representatives of the new generation of the brazilian cinema: Cao Hamburger, José Roberto Torero and Flavio Federico among others.

She was both founder and director of the Sao Paulo Short Film Festival, whose 15th edition was celebrated on the last august. She also chairs, from 1985, the Cultural Association Kinoforum, a non-profit organization, which promotes every kind of activities in relation to the development of the brazilian cinema all over the world. In Kinoforum she is in charge of promoting projects for digital short films in collaboration with the poorest communities of Sao Paulo.

Her filmography widespreads all over the cinema and television environments, but above all, her work has been especially important in the short films field. Among them some stand out:

“O Que move?” (Nelson Villas Boas 1985), “A garota das telas” (Cao Hamburger 1988), “ A alma do negocio” (José Roberto Torero1996) “ Morte” (José Roberto Torero 2002).