João Cândido Zacharias

João Cândido Zacharias Rio de Janeiro 1981 is a director and screenwriter His short film Sandra Calling 2017 won the Felix Award at the Rio Film Festival and was selected to festivals in Brazil Europe and the US His following short The Last Romantics 2019 screened in over 35 film festivals around the globe He has recently directed his first feature the queer horror A Herança Birthright His main focus of interest is genre cinema ranging all scope from horror to thriller action crime and fantasy As an LGBTQIAPN person he is also very interested in portraying characters from that community and addressing in cinematic and narrative ways issues and themes regarding them