Alessandra Gama

Directing

Alessandra Gama

Place of birth

Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

Screenwriter and director currently releasing her second short film. She made her directorial debut with Exotismos (2024), screened at the 33rd Curta Cinema and the 45th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), and awarded at national and international festivals. She is currently releasing Cidão (2026) and developing her first fiction feature, Tarifárium. She holds a PhD in Cultural Performances from UFG, is pursuing a BA in Film and Audiovisual at UEG, is the director at Zariah Films in Goiânia, Brazil, and a member of APAN, the Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Cidão poster
NR

Death stole her father; cinema gave her voice. Between silences and fabulations, a daughter dances with the shadows of memory, transforming paternal absence into a visual poem against forgetting.

Cidão

2026

Cidão poster
NR

Death stole her father; cinema gave her voice. Between silences and fabulations, a daughter dances with the shadows of memory, transforming paternal absence into a visual poem against forgetting.

Cidão

2026

Exotismos poster
10.0

Exotismos arises from Yoná's ambition to confront stereotypes associated with beauty and aesthetics, which explore the insecurities of self-esteem. With an artistic approach, she creates cuts and colors that transcend visual changes. In a vibrant and intimate setting, the film portrays dialogues and transformations that reveal not only the expression of hair, but also the individuality of dissident bodies in the cultural effervescence of the capital of Goiás.

Exotismos

2024

Exotismos poster
10.0

Exotismos arises from Yoná's ambition to confront stereotypes associated with beauty and aesthetics, which explore the insecurities of self-esteem. With an artistic approach, she creates cuts and colors that transcend visual changes. In a vibrant and intimate setting, the film portrays dialogues and transformations that reveal not only the expression of hair, but also the individuality of dissident bodies in the cultural effervescence of the capital of Goiás.

Exotismos

2024

Blessed be the Joint poster
7.0

In the midst of conservative politics in the city of Goiânia, an anti-prohibitionist collective mobilizes for the legalization of marijuana against government repression.

Blessed be the Joint

2024