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Jo Serfaty is a director and screentwriter, from Rio de Janeiro(Brazil), living between Rio and São Paulo. She works across narrative, documentary and experimental modes of filmmaking addressing social issues. Her films are made up of bonds of affection - community - investigating the collective imagination of Brazilian society. She wrote & directed her debut hybrid feature film titled Sun inside, which is a portrait of young teenagers in their last vacations to adulthood in a slum in Rio de Janeiro. Sun inside was exhibit in important film festival around the world such as; Doclisboa, Gotomborg film festival, Lincoln Center (Neighboring Scene), Documenta-Madrid, Ficvinã(Chile).The film won six special mentions from the jury in DocLisboa(2019), Mar del plata film festival(2019 and other film festivals.
Besides that, Jo Serfaty directed four short films between fiction and documentaries. that went to the Edinburgh film festival, Havana film festivals, Hotdocs and other film festivals. She also directs music videos, documentaries for MTV, CocaCola and Fashion brandings.