Fernanda is a scriptwriter, director and script
consultant, living between Brazil and Portugal.
Her last film, Big Bang Henda, a hybrid short, is
premiering at DocLisboa International FF (2023). Her
first feature as a writer, Mosquito, was the opening
film at the Rotterdam FF (2020) and won the Critics
Prize at the São Paulo International FF (2020) and
toured dozens of festivals. Her second feature, The
Last Summer, is currently in production after being
selected for the Script Station at Berlinale 2023 and
RACCONTI. She develops, writes, and directs for TV,
streaming and cinema, and her works have received
awards and nominations at the Brazilian Cinema
Academy, New York TV&Film Festival, Hollywood
Woman’s FF, among others. As a script consultant
she has worked for Cabíria Festival, Projeto Paradiso,
PLOT, Pitch Me! with Netflix and as a mentor of
IndieLab, the IndieLisboa FF’s project development
workshop. She is a co-founder of MUTIM, a Women
in Film association in Portugal.