2015Nominee
Best Director
Cidade Líquida
Laís Santos Araújo
Director · Writer
Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Biography
Laís SANTOS ARAUJO (1993) is a director and screenwriter from Maceió, Brazil. Her first feature screenplay, 'Marina', was selected by the Hubert Bals Fund, CineMart, Porto Iracema das Artes, won best screenplay at the Holland Film Meeting and is currently in pre-production. Her first fictional short, 'Sometimes we're the same height', was selected to International Film Festival Rotterdam, in the competitive section Voices. Before that, she directed documentary and experiemental shorts that aired on festivals and Brazilian TV. Nowadays, besides producing her own work, Laís is a screenwriter in series from Canal Brasil.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2022Winner
Best Writing
Infantry
2026Winner
Best Director
We Are Not Dreaming
Career Highlights
2019Highlight
Best Director
Vamos Ficar Sozinhas
2019Highlight
Best Writing
Sometimes we're the same height
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