Gabriela Amaral Almeida

Gabriela Amaral Almeida

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Gabriela Amaral Almeida is a director, screenwriter and playwright. Master in literature and horror film at UFBA (Brazil) and specializing in screenwriting at Cuba's International Film and TV School (EICTV). Directed many award winning short-films, and has released two fictional features.

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Gabriela Amaral Almeida
Gabriela Amaral Almeida

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The Father's Shadow
Screenplay
When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things. Childhood becomes a saga. And the frustrated parenthood turns into a conviction.
The Father's Shadow
Director
When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things. Childhood becomes a saga. And the frustrated parenthood turns into a conviction.
Friendly Beast
Screenplay
A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint – criminals and customers alike – and situations corrode into a nightmare state, guided by manipulation and raw compulsion.
Friendly Beast
Director
A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint – criminals and customers alike – and situations corrode into a nightmare state, guided by manipulation and raw compulsion.
Quando a Terra Treme
Writer
The story of a family who has their lives crushed by the tragedy of the floods in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Profane Cow
Screenplay
​Nádia is a transvestite who wants to be a mother. She will be a mother. She is a mother.
Estátua!
Writer
Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.
Estátua!
Director
Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.
웬 아이 워즈 얼라이브
Screenplay
직장과 가족을 잃은 주니어는 매력적인 세입자 브루나가 살고 있는 아버지의 집으로 돌아오는데 돌아가신 어머니의 물건들을 발견하면서 잊고 있던 과거를 회상하게 되고 이상한 기운에 사로잡히게 되는데...
Terno
Director
One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.
Who's Afraid of Cris Negão?
Writer
Cristiane Jordan, or Cris Negão, as she was called, was a transvestite who worked as a bawd in downtown of São Paulo known by her violent methods to control the other transvestites. Hated and feared by a legion, she also had her fans until she was tragically murdered with two shots in the head. The documentary is a dive into the transvestite universe through the stories of this legendary character of São Paulo's underworld.
The Comforting Hand
Screenplay
At her only child's 9th birthday, Lucas, Estela, a telemarketing operator, plans a party that has minimal chances of success.
The Comforting Hand
Director
At her only child's 9th birthday, Lucas, Estela, a telemarketing operator, plans a party that has minimal chances of success.
Uma Primavera
Director
At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair.
Uma Primavera
Writer
At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair.
Náufragos
Writer
Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.
Náufragos
Director
Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.
Xuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly Princess
Writer
Based on the book O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha, the story combines real world and fantasy, dream and determination, with a surprising end, even for a fairy tale. The movie shows the fight of the fairy tale characters, now adults, who come together to recover the fable of the Little Ugly Princess, a beautiful Princess with a strange name, which only makes sense for those who know her story. The problem is that children and adults have forgotten the story of the Little Ugly Princess, which is as wonderful as other major fables for children. Cinderella brings together other fairy tale characters to meet the writer who keeps, lost in a small notebook, the Little Ugly Princess story.
The Shoes of Aristeu
Writer
The body of a dead transgender woman is being prepared by others trans people for the burial. Later it is delivered to the original family, that decides to bury her as a man. A trans person cortege moves toward the wake to reclaim the deceased’s built identity.