Mattijs van de Port is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist. He did research in Serbia and the Netherlands, and since 2001 in Brazil. He is the author of three monographs and made several films, including Saborear Frutas Brasileiras (2013) and the essay films The Possibility of Spirits (2016) and Knots and Holes (2018), which were selected for many ethnographic film festivals. He was awarded the Samodiva Award for "Best Film of the International Film Festival of Ethnographic Films 2017" in Sofia, Bulgaria, and received an honorary mention at the Ethnocineca Filmfestival in Vienna, Austria in 2019. His latest film is The Body Won't Close (2021), the third in the Bahian trilogy. This film won the Basil Wright Film Prize at the RAI Filmfestival 2021 in Bristol (UK) and the Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award at the Ethnocineca International Film Festival in Vienna (Austria).