Moara Passoni
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Moara Passoni is a writer-director named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" and winner of the Milena Jelinek Memorial Award for her MFA in Screenwriting and Directing at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Her short film "My Mother is a Cow" premiered at the Venice Film Festival, won Best Short at Bafici and Best Directing at the Cyprus International Short Film Festival, and screened at over 30 festivals worldwide.
"Extase", her first non-fiction feature film, premiered in the main competition of CPH:DOX 2020, which hallmarked Moara as "one of the great names of today". The film screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2021, Visions Du Réel 2020 among others, receiving fabulous critiques and winning several awards, including the Prix D'Innovation Daniel Langlois at Festival Du Cinema Nouveau, the Jury Award for best newcomers at the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Best Film Young Jury Award at Cinema Jove.
She served as a writer and producer for the Academy Award Nominee and Peabody winner "The Edge Of Democracy'', for which she was nominated for best narration/writing by The Critics' Choice Awards and the International Documentary Association.
Moara graduated in Sociology, Anthropology, and Political Sciences at the University of São Paulo, studied Dance & Performance at PUC/SP in addition to Philosophy & Aesthetics at Paris 8. After finishing a master's in Film & Documentary at Unicamp, she joined the MFA in Screenwriting-Directing at Columbia University.
Passoni works between Brazil and the U.S., and is developing a narrative TV series and her debut fiction feature.
Her short film "My Mother is a Cow" premiered at the Venice Film Festival, won Best Short at Bafici and Best Directing at the Cyprus International Short Film Festival, and screened at over 30 festivals worldwide.
"Extase", her first non-fiction feature film, premiered in the main competition of CPH:DOX 2020, which hallmarked Moara as "one of the great names of today". The film screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2021, Visions Du Réel 2020 among others, receiving fabulous critiques and winning several awards, including the Prix D'Innovation Daniel Langlois at Festival Du Cinema Nouveau, the Jury Award for best newcomers at the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Best Film Young Jury Award at Cinema Jove.
She served as a writer and producer for the Academy Award Nominee and Peabody winner "The Edge Of Democracy'', for which she was nominated for best narration/writing by The Critics' Choice Awards and the International Documentary Association.
Moara graduated in Sociology, Anthropology, and Political Sciences at the University of São Paulo, studied Dance & Performance at PUC/SP in addition to Philosophy & Aesthetics at Paris 8. After finishing a master's in Film & Documentary at Unicamp, she joined the MFA in Screenwriting-Directing at Columbia University.
Passoni works between Brazil and the U.S., and is developing a narrative TV series and her debut fiction feature.
