João Cândido Zacharias

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1981-11-14 (43 years old)

Place of Birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

João Cândido Zacharias

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

2024
Birthright

as Director

2019
The Last Romantics

as Director

2017
Sandra Calling

as Director

2007
OK

as Assistant Director

Writer

2024
Birthright

as Writer

2022
A Jaula

as Adaptation

2019
The Last Romantics

as Screenplay

2017
Sandra Calling

as Screenplay

2016
Danado de Bom

as Writer

Editor

2019