Gabriel Salazar

Acting

Gabriel Salazar

Born 1995-03-31 · Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Gabriel Salazar is a Brazilian actor, director, writer, producer and composer born in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. A graduate in Performing Arts (UFSC), Gabriel began his acting career in 2013. On television, he held a recurring role in the HBO/O2 Filmes series "Pico da Neblina" ("Joint Venture" - 2019-2022), directed by Academy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles and Quico Meirelles. In film, he earned a Best Actor nomination at the 2017 Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival (LABRFF) for his performance in the feature film "180 Graus" ("180 Degrees"). The movie, directed by Phil Rocha, was originally developed as a web series (2016-2018) featuring Gabriel in the lead cast. As a filmmaker, Gabriel transitioned into directing with the short documentary "Sonata Julieta" (2022). He subsequently wrote and directed a series of experimental documentaries, including "Devaneio" (2023), "Duração-Diferença" (2023), "PULSO" (2024), and his latest project, "Uprising Smoke" (2026)." He is currently working on the post-production of the feature-length documentary "Assim Disse Zoroastro" and the experimental short film "A Palavra".

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Julieta Sonata poster
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A "short film gift" documentary that shows how Alzheimer's has affected and affects Julieta. These are affective movements that appear in the game between: pauses and flow, approaches and distances, music and silence.

Julieta Sonata

2022

Julieta Sonata poster
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A "short film gift" documentary that shows how Alzheimer's has affected and affects Julieta. These are affective movements that appear in the game between: pauses and flow, approaches and distances, music and silence.

Julieta Sonata

2022

Julieta Sonata poster
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A "short film gift" documentary that shows how Alzheimer's has affected and affects Julieta. These are affective movements that appear in the game between: pauses and flow, approaches and distances, music and silence.

Julieta Sonata

2022

Burnt Ends poster
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Ten filmmakers were tasked with making surreal short film segments that loosely involve a cigarette. The result is Lynchian chaos in anthology form - the good ends, the bad ends, the loose ends, and the burnt ends. A sprawling anthology about all things cigarettes.

Burnt Ends

2026

PULSE poster
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Pulse is the heart of music. A series of uniform beats that are audible or implied and repeat themselves. It is the relationship between the beats and their silences. The pulse is also the artist's unique expression—their heart. And Murilo is getting ready to perform his drum solo. He practices. Repeats. Tries to find his own pulse.

PULSE

2024

PULSE poster
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Pulse is the heart of music. A series of uniform beats that are audible or implied and repeat themselves. It is the relationship between the beats and their silences. The pulse is also the artist's unique expression—their heart. And Murilo is getting ready to perform his drum solo. He practices. Repeats. Tries to find his own pulse.

PULSE

2024

Duration-Difference poster
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Inspired by Lois Patiño's short movies project called "Paisaje-Duración" (Duration-Landscape) and Hiroshi Sugimoto's photo series "Seascapes", "Duração-Diferença" (Duration-Difference) reveals the difference through duration, through time; this short experimental movie seeks to capture, as Patiño and Sugimoto achived, the immanence as the entrance for something more - or something in between.

Duration-Difference

2023

Duration-Difference poster
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Inspired by Lois Patiño's short movies project called "Paisaje-Duración" (Duration-Landscape) and Hiroshi Sugimoto's photo series "Seascapes", "Duração-Diferença" (Duration-Difference) reveals the difference through duration, through time; this short experimental movie seeks to capture, as Patiño and Sugimoto achived, the immanence as the entrance for something more - or something in between.

Duration-Difference

2023

Duration-Difference poster
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Inspired by Lois Patiño's short movies project called "Paisaje-Duración" (Duration-Landscape) and Hiroshi Sugimoto's photo series "Seascapes", "Duração-Diferença" (Duration-Difference) reveals the difference through duration, through time; this short experimental movie seeks to capture, as Patiño and Sugimoto achived, the immanence as the entrance for something more - or something in between.

Duration-Difference

2023

Reverie poster
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Reverie. Daydream. Fantasize. Digress. The static look in absence, the look that is lost trying to be present. Everyday scenes, desires, feelings and impulses present and re-present; and how this affects the body.

Reverie

2023

Reverie poster
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Reverie. Daydream. Fantasize. Digress. The static look in absence, the look that is lost trying to be present. Everyday scenes, desires, feelings and impulses present and re-present; and how this affects the body.

Reverie

2023

Reverie poster
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Reverie. Daydream. Fantasize. Digress. The static look in absence, the look that is lost trying to be present. Everyday scenes, desires, feelings and impulses present and re-present; and how this affects the body.

Reverie

2023

Uprising Smoke poster
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A film director. A protest against the 6x1 work schedule. And there is always this guiding, meditative voice that controls the impulse to revolt, that isolates, atomizes the being. In this confusion, it's necessary to choose a side - or at least be aware of the side chosen. There is no not choosing.

Uprising Smoke

2026

Uprising Smoke poster
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A film director. A protest against the 6x1 work schedule. And there is always this guiding, meditative voice that controls the impulse to revolt, that isolates, atomizes the being. In this confusion, it's necessary to choose a side - or at least be aware of the side chosen. There is no not choosing.

Uprising Smoke

2026

Uprising Smoke poster
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A film director. A protest against the 6x1 work schedule. And there is always this guiding, meditative voice that controls the impulse to revolt, that isolates, atomizes the being. In this confusion, it's necessary to choose a side - or at least be aware of the side chosen. There is no not choosing.

Uprising Smoke

2026

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Upcoming documentary feature.

Assim Disse Zoroastro

No artwork available
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Upcoming documentary feature.

Assim Disse Zoroastro

No artwork available
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Upcoming documentary feature.

Assim Disse Zoroastro