André Amparo is a director, screenwriter, and producer of documentaries, TV series, features and short films, video art, music videos and video installations. Winner of the Telly Awards (2020), pre-nominated for the Emmy Awards (2020) with the doc series Babel SP (2019, HBO). Creator and director of the fiction series Love is Who I Am (10 episodes/30 min). Prodav TVs Públicas winning project, in partnership with director Cris Azzi. Shown by TV Cultura, Rede Minas and TVE Bahia. His works have been shown on HBO, CNN, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, TV Cultura, Canal Futura, Rede Globo, Canal Brasil, MTV, and others. They have also been presented in more than 40 countries, MoMA (NY), Center Georges Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Niigata Fine Arts Museum (Japan) and Instituto Artes Alameda (Mexico City). He has a degree in Social Communication from UFMG with specialization courses in the USA, France and the Netherlands.
Cris Azzi is a director, producer and screenwriter. He is a Social Communication Graduate from the Faculty of Communication and Arts at PUC-MG. He worked for more than a decade as assistant director over 20 feature films and TV series. He has worked with reknown filmmakers such as Karim Ainouz, Anna Muylaert and Paul Leduc. His first film as director is the doc Sumidouro (2007), presented at É Tudo Verdade Festival. His second doc, O Dia do Galo, co-directed with Luiz Felipe Fernandes, was the winner of the popular jury at the Tiradentes Film Festival in 2015. His first feature-length work was the episode film Any Flight, part of the film 5 Fractions of an Almost Story. Released in 2007, the film was shown at the Rio Festival, Mostra Internacional de SP, Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes, Chicago Latino FF, Cine PE (special jury award, best art direction), Brazilian Film Festival (special jury award, best script). In 2023, directed is first solo fiction, Luna, also co-directed with Andre Amparo Love is Who I Am.