Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1980. She went to New York in 1998 to study history and politics at Columbia University. She started her filmmaking career in Cairo, where she wrote and edited Control Room (2004). Subsequently, she directed the documentaries Encounter Point (2006, 30th Mostra), Budrus (2009), My Neighbourhood (2012), and Naila and the Uprising (2017), presented at film festivals such as Tribeca, Berlin and IDFA.
