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Biography of the director

Kiko Goifman
He has directed the feature films Periscópio (Periscope, 2013), fiction selected for Rotterdam Film Festival; Olhe Pra Mim de Novo (Look at Me Again, 2011), co-directed with Claudia Priscilla, documentary selected for Berlinale; FilmeFobia (Film Phobia, 2008), fiction selected for Locarno Film Festival; Handerson e as Horas (Handerson and the Hours, 2007), a documentary about time people spend in a bus in São Paulo, selected for Locarno Film Festival and Opening Screening in Nantes Festival 3 Continents 2007; Atos dos Homens (Acts of Men, 2006), documentary supported by Prince Claus Fund (Holland) and World Cinema Fund (Germany), selected for Berlinale 2006 (Forum) and awarded as Best Documentary at Nantes Festival 3 Continents 2006; and 33 (2003), documentary supported by Hubert Bals Fund and selected for Locarno Festival, Rotterdam Festival 2003, Marseille Festival and NoirFest in Italy.


Claudia Priscilla
She is a filmmaker, writer and producer. She lives in São Paulo and was born in 1972. Originally a journalist, she began her career in film making short films. Her first feature film, the documentary Iron and Milk, was about motherhood in prison. In partnership with Kiko Goifman she also directed the feature film Look at Me Again, a road movie through the backlands of Brazilian Northeast, starred by a transsexual man. The focus of her work as a director is the discussion of gender issues.