Murilo Pasta

Italian-Brazilian Murilo Pasta lived for several years in the UK, where he established himself as the first non-native English-speaking filmmaker to sustainedly direct mainstream British TV drama for the BBC ('Casualty', 'Grange Hill'), Channel 4 ('Brookside', 'Hollyoaks') and Sky Television ('Dream Team'). Still in the UK he wrote and directed a number of shorts, including The 'Tale of the Rat that Wrote', which was nominated for a Best Short BAFTA Award and won several international film festivals. Murilo’s debut feature, 'Carmo Hit the Road', was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic Competition) at the 25th Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 33rd Sao Paulo International Film Festival. 'Transit', an MTV Networks Europe feature production won Murilo Best Popular Feature at the One World Media Awards. He helmed the TV police drama series '9mm' for Fox Latin America and has directed TV commercials in Brazil and Europe. His one and only foray into theater, Hitchcockian noir drama 'Be Mine', was a smash hit both in Brazil and Portugal. More recently Murilo wrote the comedy feature 'Jogos Clandestinos' (AKA 'Backstreet Games'), currently in post-production, and was co-creator, co-writer, co-director and showrunner on the crime drama TV series 'Natureza Morta' ('Still Life') for premium cable in Brazil. He has taught screenwriting at the Royal College of Art, the London College of Communication – University of the Arts London and Goldsmiths University, all in the UK. Murilo holds a master’s degree in screenwriting from the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London and has under his belt both the Professional Program in TV Writing and the Professional Program in Screenwriting from UCLA. He is a full, voting member of both the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the European Film Academy. He has an 11-year-old daughter called Rosa Giulietta (an homage to Federico Fellini’s muse, life companion and actress extraordinaire Giulietta Masina), and a barmy border collie called Pingo (Portuguese for ‘Droplet’).