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Paula Sacchetta
Biography
Paula is 32 and has been working for the past years with documentary, specially on themes related to human rights. Her last feature film "Faces of Harassment", was released in 2016 in the Brasília Film Festival and has participated in many others such as 24o Festival Mix Brasil and 20a Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes. "Faces of Harassment" is also a transmedia project that has participated in IDFA Docs for Sale. Since 2017, the film has been screened in many TV channels and streaming platforms in Brazil and Latin America, such as Canal Brasil and Net Now and is distributed worldwide by Women Make Movies. Paula has also directed "Truth 12.528", a documentary about the Brazilian National Truth Commission, released in 2013 in São Paulo International Film Festival. "Truth 12.528" has also taken part in many festivals outside Brazil such as Cinema Vérité (Iran) and International Political Film Festival (Argentine), among many others. Graduated in Journalism, Paula has won the Vladimir Herzog Prize for Amnesty and Human Rights with a newspaper article about the Brazilian National Truth Commission in 2012 and has covered the first Egyptian presidential elections after Mubarak's fall, from Cairo, for TV Folha. Paula has made webdocs for AJ+ and for the English newspaper The Guardian and also wrote and directed “The more prisoners, the greater the profit”, a short doc about the emergence of private prisons in Brazil. Paula was assistant director on "Warrant", a film about the search and arrest warrants in Brazilian favelas during the World Cup and The Olympic Games. She co-directed "Families", a 5-episode TV series about the LGBT youth in the outskirts of São Paulo, which was contemplated in the Public TVs Open Call 2016 and that has won, in 2019, the Iberoamerican Prix Jeunesse in the non-fiction category 11-15 years. In 2018, Paula wrote and directed the 8-episode TV series "I, a Prisoner", about the Brazilian prison system. Paula is currently directing one episode for GNT TV Channel 10-episode series "Burnout Society", based on the book of the same name by the south Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han and she's also writing a two-part series about Nenê da Brasilândia, a female drug dealer who lead the trafficking in São Paulo during the seventies. She's also been part of Hysteria, a platform for audiovisual content directed by women and has been Maria Augusta Ramos assistant in her new film about Lula, to be released in 2020.