Gabriela Amaral Almeida

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Gabriela Amaral Almeida

Gabriela Amaral Almeida is a director, screenwriter and playwright. Master in literature and horror film at UFBA (Brazil) and specializing in screenwriting at Cuba's International Film and TV School (EICTV). Directed many award winning short-films, and has released two fictional features.

Known For

Quarto do PânicoQuarto do Pânico · 2025
Quarto do Pânico
5.82025
MovieThrillerCrime
A woman and her daughter move into a house with a panic room, a secret space where residents can hide in case of danger. When alleged burglars break into the house, they take refuge in the room, until they discover that it is precisely there that the trio of intruders are looking for.
Who's Afraid of Cris Negão?Who's Afraid of Cris Negão? · 2012
Who's Afraid of Cris Negão?
7.52012
MovieDocumentary
Cristiane Jordan, or Cris Negão, as she was called, was a transvestite who worked as a bawd in downtown of São Paulo known by her violent methods to control the other transvestites. Hated and feared by a legion, she also had her fans until she was tragically murdered with two shots in the head. The documentary is a dive into the transvestite universe through the stories of this legendary character of São Paulo's underworld.
A Procura de MartinaA Procura de Martina · 2025
A Procura de Martina
7.32025
MovieDrama
Martina, who has Alzheimer's, has been searching for her grandson for over three decades. Discovering he is in Brazil, her long and solitary journey becomes an intense struggle against time and oblivion.
Estátua!Estátua! · 2014
Estátua!
6.02014
MovieDramaHorror
Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.
The Father's ShadowThe Father's Shadow · 2018
The Father's Shadow
6.42018
MovieDramaFantasy
When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things. Childhood becomes a saga. And the frustrated parenthood turns into a conviction.
Uma PrimaveraUma Primavera · 2011
Uma Primavera
6.02011
MovieDrama
At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair.
Venice 70: Future ReloadedVenice 70: Future Reloaded · 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
5.12013
MovieDramaDocumentary
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
A Sutil CircunstânciaA Sutil Circunstância · 2011
A Sutil Circunstância
2011
MovieDrama
A subtle morning, in the subtle life of Judite and the subtle Eduardo, marked by macabre and not at all subtle circumstances.

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Xuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly PrincessXuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly Princess · 2009
Xuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly Princess
5.02009
MovieFamilyFantasy
Based on the book O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha, the story combines real world and fantasy, dream and determination, with a surprising end, even for a fairy tale. The movie shows the fight of the fairy tale characters, now adults, who come together to recover the fable of the Little Ugly Princess, a beautiful Princess with a strange name, which only makes sense for those who know her story. The problem is that children and adults have forgotten the story of the Little Ugly Princess, which is as wonderful as other major fables for children. Cinderella brings together other fairy tale characters to meet the writer who keeps, lost in a small notebook, the Little Ugly Princess story.

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