Andréa Monteiro (she/her) is a Brazilian-Canadian documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. As an interdisciplinary artist, her creative expressions weave through activism, filmmaking and academia. She has over two decades of community leadership and engagement through the non-profit sector in Brazil and Canada and fifteen years between nursing research, education and palliative clinical care.

Andréa holds a PhD in nursing from the University of Victoria (2018) and has social justice issues at the center of her scholarship and filmmaking. The artist’s short documentary Ô Criatura: Navigating (dis)location (2019) screened at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Oaxaca FilmFest (Mexico), and the Toronto Queer Film Festival. Andréa currently holds a Research Associate position at the University of British Columbia | xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Traditional Territory.

As an uninvited visitor, Andréa acknowledges with respect the land on which she lives and creates in the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and sə̓lílwətaʔɬSelilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh Nations).