Juliana Curi is an award-winning film director.
Director, writer, and executive producer of the award-winning documentary feature film UYRA - THE RISING FOREST (2022). International critically acclaimed featured in outlets such as Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and the Golden Globes Hollywood Press Association, the film had its world premiere at the 46th Frameline International Film Festival, receiving the Audience Award for Best Documentary. The film also won the Special Award for Freedom at the 40th Outfest Los Angeles, the Grand Jury Award at the Newfest Film Festival in NYC, and was selected for competition at the 46th São Paulo Film Festival, in addition to 24 other festivals and 7 international awards.
With this film, she participated in the BRIClab Film+TV 2020 artistic residency in Brooklyn - NY, and received support from the Doc Society Climate Story Fund 2021, a British foundation that supports films with a strong capacity to foster discussion on climate justice, in addition to participating in the Climate Story Lab Amazonia 2021.
Influenced by the Cinema Novo movement and with a background in journalism, she has a body of work focused on powerful impact narratives. She began her career in the creative department of MTV Brazil developing socio-cultural impact campaigns on Grassroots Movements and since then she has been awarded by UN Women, signs the exhibitions Pink Intervention (Spotte Art NY Gallery, Artsy), The Battle of the Body at Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo Cultural Center) and founded the audiovisual inclusion project EUETU Lab, which aims to strengthen the inclusion of indigenous, black, LGBTQIA+ and peripheral youth in the filmmaking industry.
CLIPPING | ENDORSEMENTS | AWARDS
Bric Brooklyn Lab Film + TV 2020/2021 Selected Filmmaker BRIC BROOKLYN
NO7'S FEMALE EMPOWERMENT CAMPAIGN AIMS TO HELP WOMEN IMPACTED BY THE 'SHECESSION' AD AGE - Editor's Pick
P&G SHARING MAKE US BETTER - Best work in Latin America that seek to bring down gender stereotypes - UN WOMEN AWARD 2019
PROFILE - LITTLE BLACK BOOK 2019
PROFILE - SHOOT
P&G SHARING MAKE US BETTER - AD AGE EDITOR’S PICK
ARTICLE/WRITER - FEMINISM AND MERITOCRACY - LATIN SPOTS 2019
DON’T LET GO OF ANYBODY’S HAND - MUSIC VIDEO LIN DA QUEBRADA, JALOO, JUÇARA MARÇAL & LUCAS SANTANNA - FRANCE INFO
DON’T LET GO OF ANYBODY’S HAND - MUSIC VIDEO LIN DA QUEBRADA, JALOO, JUÇARA MARÇAL & LUCAS SANTANNA - TELERAMA.FR
DON’T LET GO OF ANYBODY’S HAND - MUSIC VIDEO LIN DA QUEBRADA, JALOO, JUÇARA MARÇAL & LUCAS SANTANNA - TSUGI.FR
EXECUTIVE JURY CICLOPE FESTIVAL 2018
STORIES IN THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE - INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY/ ICP
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM DYNAMIC ENCOUNTERS - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NY/ MOMA
IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE SKILLS - THIRD RAIL PROJECT THEATER/NYC
MORE GRLS - The first roadmap to female talent in Brazil which aims to fight gender inequality
MORE GLRS NGO - DIRECTOR, STEREOTYPE CAMPAIGN - ADS OF THE WORLD
MORE GLRS NGO - DIRECTOR, STEREOTYPE CAMPAIGN - COSMOPOLITAN
PINK INTERVENTION - JOURNAL TRANSGENDER STUDIES QUARTERLY - DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2018
PISCINA ART - BRAZILIAN PLATFORM FOR FEMALE ARTISTS
WOMEN IN A MAD MEN’S WORLD - FILM FACTORY VIENNA 2017
JULIANA INTERVIEW ABOUT GENDER EQUALITY - LATIN SPOTS
JULIANA INTERVIEW ABOUT GENDER EQUALITY - AD NEWS
DIRECTING ACTORS FOR FILM - ADRIENNE WEISS NYC
PINK INTERVENTION EXHIBITION - ARTSY
PINK INTERVENTION EXHIBITION - SPOTTE ART NY
ARTIST PROFILE - SPOTTE ART NY
THE BATTLE OF THE BODY EXHIBITION - Brazilian National Commission for Cultural Incentive Prize
THE BATTLE OF THE BODY EXHIBITION - MONICA BERGAMO
THE BATTLE OF THE BODY EXHIBITION - FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO
THE BATTLE OF THE BODY EXHIBITION - MARIE CLAIRE
THE BATTLE OF THE BODY EXHIBITION - MY ART GUIDE