Eight years ago I was arriving in the US to start a new life. Immigration is a complex and delicate process. It’s a very deep transformation. You have no choice but to let go. It’s a form of death, many deaths. It’s also a rebirth, many rebirths. Eight years ago I’d start a long process of many consecutive deaths and rebirths. And with it I started to weave and co-create a new reality. With a mix of my deepest fears and many painful challenges that I’ve never expected to face, I began to imagine. And then to believe. And then to create, to write and to edit my own films to start everything again. But in a totally different way.
Before becoming a filmmaker, my professional experience came from my acting career in Brazil: I was always in front of the cameras or on a stage. My interest in making films started after I arrived in the US: because I didn’t speak English, I could not act. Editing was the way I found to keep doing my art. My editing process was mostly intuitive.
I started to see everything as film material. I started to put my impressions about life and the world, discussing many issues in my films, global issues mirroring my original country. I started to find a voice, my own voice. And with it I became a filmmaker.
For me, it’s important and urgent to put different perspectives on the screen. Real perspectives. The world needs it. With materials of life experiences, I dig deep into my own sensibility and through my perspective as a Latin American woman, immigrant and mother I make these films. Because my films are very poetic and my editing has its own way to conduct the audience, I believe that I’m creating and solidifying my own style.