Directing
Priscila Nascimento
Place of birth
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Known for
Directing
Credits
9 titles
Priscila Nascimento is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, film editor and sound artist, graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual from UFPE. Her work explores memory, landscape, archives and affective heritage, drawing from experiences in Brazil’s countryside and the outskirts of Recife. She directed and contributed to films such as Noite Fria, Sonho em Ruínas and Notícias de São Paulo, screened at national and international festivals. Her cinema moves between the intimate and the political, crafting sensory, experimental narratives with a strong authorial voice.
Known for
NRBetween work at a call center, trips to the bar and daily news, nothing is out of place in Marta’s world. Between monotony and a breakdown of reality, an attempt to talk about violence while fleeing it.
Noite Fria
2020
Determined to preserve local heritage, Jurema, a photographer, confronts her fears when an experimental audiovisual project puts her best friend at risk. To protect a guardian of the neighborhood's memory, she confronts heirs of former plantation owners who manipulate the past and joins forces with a local scientist to recover the memory before it is erased.
Rúinas da Memória
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NRDirector Lincoln Péricles revisits memories recorded since he had access to cameras and microphones, putting together a film in the form of a rap mixtape, combining sounds and images from Brazilian cinema and denaturalising the images of work.
My Friend Pedro MIXTAPE
2024
NRA discussion with her family brings a daughter an occasion to ponder the past. Presence and absence lead to an immersion into memories, and ultimately, to the future.
News from São Paulo
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Roteiro para uma fuga
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NRA dream brings to light the untold story of a Black great-grandmother.
Dream in Shambles
2024
Behind the camera
NRBetween work at a call center, trips to the bar and daily news, nothing is out of place in Marta’s world. Between monotony and a breakdown of reality, an attempt to talk about violence while fleeing it.
Noite Fria
2020
Determined to preserve local heritage, Jurema, a photographer, confronts her fears when an experimental audiovisual project puts her best friend at risk. To protect a guardian of the neighborhood's memory, she confronts heirs of former plantation owners who manipulate the past and joins forces with a local scientist to recover the memory before it is erased.
Rúinas da Memória
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Determined to preserve local heritage, Jurema, a photographer, confronts her fears when an experimental audiovisual project puts her best friend at risk. To protect a guardian of the neighborhood's memory, she confronts heirs of former plantation owners who manipulate the past and joins forces with a local scientist to recover the memory before it is erased.
Rúinas da Memória
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NRDirector Lincoln Péricles revisits memories recorded since he had access to cameras and microphones, putting together a film in the form of a rap mixtape, combining sounds and images from Brazilian cinema and denaturalising the images of work.
My Friend Pedro MIXTAPE
2024
NRA discussion with her family brings a daughter an occasion to ponder the past. Presence and absence lead to an immersion into memories, and ultimately, to the future.
News from São Paulo
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Roteiro para uma fuga
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NRA dream brings to light the untold story of a Black great-grandmother.
Dream in Shambles
2024
NRA dream brings to light the untold story of a Black great-grandmother.
Dream in Shambles
2024
No synopsis available yet.
Fim de um mundo
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