screenwriter
09/06/2024
Audiovisual
Writers Room
Manuela, from Bahia, is a meditator, vegetarian and environmental activist. After studying journalism and cinema in Cuba under Gabriel García Márquez and Orlando Senna, she debuted as both an author and a screenwriter in 1997, contributing to "Sandy and Junior". With ten films and four plays, including "Matraga" and "The Sky Over the Shoulders". On TV Globo, she took part in 27 programs and received International Emmy nominations for "Justiça" and "Amor de Mãe". An award-winning author, she made her literary debut in 2022 with "Tilikum", followed by "Diário da Dona Lurdes" and "Berenice e Soriano". In 2024 she released "Justice 2" and "Dona Lurdes" for the cinema, and her publishing house, Voante.