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Maureen Fazendeiro (born 1989 in Créteil, France) is a film director and screenwriter. She lives and works in Lisbon. She studied literature, art and film at the Université Denis Diderot in Paris.

Her first feature film, Motu Maeva (2014), premiered at FID Marseille and won awards at several festivals (DocLisboa, Valdivia, Brive, Play-Doc). This film and her other short films, Sol Negro (2019, TIFF Wavelength) and Les Habitants (2025, Cinéma du Réel), have been screened at festivals around the world, including the Viennale, Mar del Plata, Jeonju, New Director’s New Films, FICUNAM, Belfort, Angers, Gijón and SEMINCI. They have also been screened at film archives and museums such as the FIAC in Paris, the Venice Biennale, the Aichi Triennale, the Palais de Tokyo and the MoMA.

She divides her time between solo projects and collaborations with Miguel Gomes as a casting director and screenwriter (Grand Tour, Official Selection at Cannes 2024). Together they co-directed The Tsugua Diaries (Directors’ Fortnight 2021), which was released in Portugal, France, the United States, Italy, Spain and Brazil and was selected in over fifty festivals. They won the Best Director award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. She also co-wrote Miguel Gomes’s upcoming film, Savagery.

In 2025, the Curtas Vila do Conde festival dedicated a spotlight to her work in the ‘New Voices’ section, and her first feature-length documentary, The Seasons, premiered in competition at Locarno.