Biography

Laís SANTOS ARAUJO (1993) is a director and screenwriter from Maceió, Brazil. Her first feature screenplay, 'Marina', was selected by the Hubert Bals Fund, CineMart, Porto Iracema das Artes, won best screenplay at the Holland Film Meeting and is currently in pre-production. Her first fictional short, 'Sometimes we're the same height', was selected to International Film Festival Rotterdam, in the competitive section Voices. Before that, she directed documentary and experiemental shorts that aired on festivals and Brazilian TV. Nowadays, besides producing her own work, Laís is a screenwriter in series from Canal Brasil.