Maria Clara Escobar

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Maria Clara Escobar

Biography

Maria Clara Escobar wrote and directed the feature film “Desterro”, her first fiction, selected for the Tiger Awards Competition at the 49th Rotterdam International Film Festival. Before, she directed “The Days with Him”, documentary feature film awarded in festivals like Tiradentes (Brazil), DocLisboa (Portugal), or Cachoeira.Doc (Brazil), and presented in in venues like IBAFF - Murcia International Film Festival (Spain), Directors Week (Brazil), or the International Festival of Nuevo Habana Latin American Cine (Cuba). The film was commercially released in 18 cities in Brazil in April 2014 and released on DVD by Instituto Moreira Salles. Maria Clara also wrote and directed two short films, wrote the screenplay and was the assistant director of Julia Murat’s “Found Memories”. This film had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and has won over 30 awards, having participated in over 40 festivals. She recently worked in casting in two Berlinale’17 films: “Joaquim” by Marcelo Gomes (International Competition) and “Pendular” by Julia Murat (Panorama, where it won the Fipresci Award). In 2019 Maria Clara released her first book of poems “Medo, Medo, Medo”.

Known For

Director

2024
Portrait of a Certain Orient

as First Assistant Director

2021
Abandonment

as Director

2020
Onde Habito

as Director

2015
Califórnia

as Second Assistant Director

2014
The Days with Him

as Director

2009
Pendular

as Assistant Director

Writer

2024
Serra das Almas

as Screenplay

2021
Abandonment

as Writer

2020
Dysphoria

as Script Consultant

2012
Found Memories

as Writer

Producer

2022
Paloma

as Casting

2020
Shine Your Eyes

as Casting

2017
Pendular

as Casting Producer

Actor

2017
2017
Joaquim

as Cantora

Camera

2014
The Days with Him

as Director of Photography

Sound

2014

Art

2008
Areia

as Art Direction