Elcio Cabral Melo graduated as a journalist and worked in the field from 1998 until 2015. He has a postgraduate degree in Audiovisual Screenwriting (2013) and since 2019 he owns an audiovisual production company called Pirambeira-Mar Produtora, it is located in Ubatuba, on the coast of São Paulo.
He wrote, directed and produced "Hitchhiker Virus" (2021); "Neighborhood Friends" (2022) and "The Filmmaker" (2023).