Nara Normande

Born in Guaxuma a beach in NorthEast Brazil Nara is now living in Recife She started to study journalism due to a lack of film schools where she grew up She directed 3 short films two animated the other one in live action images The first one Dia Estrelado 2011 her graduation film is a stop motion animated movie about a family that is trying to survive in a inhospitable area Her inspiration for this film came from the frequent trips she took with her father to Sertão an extremely dry and poor region of Brazil With it she learned to write a script make a shot list to animate a movie Her second film Sem Coração 2014 codirected with Tião is a live action image that was selected at the Quinzaine Des Réalisateurs where it received the Illy price of the best short movie Her shortfilm Guaxuma premiered in TIFF and has won many prizes world wide