Directing
Community Rating
5.7
TMDB estimate
Born
November 14, 1981 (age 44)
Born in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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.
The Best of All Worlds
as Writer
2024
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Birthright
as Director, Writer
2024
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A Jaula
as Adaptation
2022
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The Last Romantics
as Director, Screenplay, Editor
2019
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Sandra Calling
as Director, Screenplay
2017
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Danado de Bom
as Writer
2016
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OK
as Assistant Director
2007
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Linguinha
as Cientista Louco
1971
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