Nay Mendl

A Brazilian trans filmmaker from the favela of São Paulo, working between body, time, and memory. Their films drift through the porous edges of documentary and fiction, shaped by the resistances and (...) inventions of trans, favela, and Latin American cinema. Co-founder of Maloka Filmes, a community-based film collective, and of the Perifericu Festival of Cinema and Favela Culture. Their recent short film Será Inmortal Quien Merezca Serlo received the Junges Dokfest A38-Production Grant at Kassel Dokfest, was nominated for the BAFTA Student Awards, and earned prizes at Oberhausen, the Festival of Future Storytellers, FIEC (Uruguay), and the IMAGINA Award (Costa Rica). Their work has screened over 300 times worldwide.