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Movie Involvements: 17

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

Maria Clara Escobar wrote and directed the feature film “Desterro”, her first fiction, selected for the Tiger Awards Competition at the 49th Rotterdam International Film Festival. Before, she directed “The Days with Him”, documentary feature film awarded in festivals like Tiradentes (Brazil), DocLisboa (Portugal), or Cachoeira.Doc (Brazil), and presented in in venues like IBAFF - Murcia International Film Festival (Spain), Directors Week (Brazil), or the International Festival of Nuevo Habana Latin American Cine (Cuba). The film was commercially released in 18 cities in Brazil in April 2014 and released on DVD by Instituto Moreira Salles. Maria Clara also wrote and directed two short films, wrote the screenplay and was the assistant director of Julia Murat’s “Found Memories”. This film had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and has won over 30 awards, having participated in over 40 festivals. She recently worked in casting in two Berlinale’17 films: “Joaquim” by Marcelo Gomes (International Competition) and “Pendular” by Julia Murat (Panorama, where it won the Fipresci Award). In 2019 Maria Clara released her first book of poems “Medo, Medo, Medo”.

Most Famous Work

Found Memories
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8

Found Memories

(2012) Writer
Pendular
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6

Pendular

(2017) Casting Producer
Portrait of a Certain Orient
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5

Portrait of a Certain Orient

(2024) First Assistant Director
Areia
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0

Areia

(2008) Art Direction
Shine Your Eyes
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7

Shine Your Eyes

(2020) Casting
Yesterday There Were Strange Things in the Sky
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8
Abandonment
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6

Abandonment

(2021) Writer
Dysphoria
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5

Dysphoria

(2020) Script Consultant

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2017 N/A
Cantora
2014 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2024 First Assistant Director
2021 Director
2020 Director
2014 Director
2009 Assistant Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Casting
2020 Casting
2017 Casting Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Camera

Year Role Movie/Tv
2014 Director of Photography
Year Role Movie/Tv

Sound

Year Role Movie/Tv
2014 Sound
Year Role Movie/Tv

Art

Year Role Movie/Tv
2008 Art Direction
Year Role Movie/Tv

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