João Cândido Zacharias
Directing
- Born
- November 14, 1981 (age 44) · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
João Cândido Zacharias (Rio de Janeiro, 1981) is a director and screenwriter. His short film Sandra Calling (2017) won the Felix Award at the Rio Film Festival and was selected to festivals in Brazil, Europe and the US. His following short, The Last Romantics (2019), screened in over 35 film festivals around the globe. He has recently directed his first feature, the queer horror A Herança (Birthright).
His main focus of interest is genre cinema, ranging all scope from horror to thriller, action, crime and fantasy. As an LGBTQIAPN+ person, he is also very interested in portraying characters from that community and addressing, in cinematic and narrative ways, issues and themes regarding them.
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- 2027Jenna & Salvador Director, Writer
- 2024The Best of All Worlds Writer
- 2024Birthright Director, Writer
- 2022A Jaula Adaptation
- 2019The Last Romantics Director, Screenplay, Editor
- 2017Sandra Calling Director, Screenplay
- 2016Danado de Bom Writer
- 2007OK Assistant Director
