Victor Quintanilha holds a degree in Cinema from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2011). His final undergraduate project, Condição, which he wrote and directed, premiered at the 2012 Festival do Rio.
Victor specialized in Sound at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) in Cuba (2015), where he worked as a sound designer on Iceberg, which premiered at IDFA 2015 and won Best Short Film at the Fribourg International Film Festival (2016). He has also contributed sound design to several other award-winning short films at major international festivals.
Since 2015, Victor has worked as a sound editor on 51 feature films, including the award-winning Aos Teus Olhos (directed by Carolina Jabor), Gabriel e a Montanha (directed by Fellipe Barbosa), and Bacurau (directed by Kléber Mendonça Filho), as well as a range of documentaries and streaming series.
In 2020, Victor wrote and directed Little Portugal, which had its international premiere at the 2021 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, where it received a Special Mention from the International Jury. The film has since been showcased at over 40 festivals across 15 countries.
His latest short film, Jacaré, is currently being distributed and had its world premiere at the 2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.