Thiago is a multi-award-winning film director and screenwriter from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A first-generation UCLA alumni and Los Angeles resident, Thiago has stabilized himself as a major prospect in the Brazilian Hollywood community. His debut short Querido Espaço(Dear Blank) ran for Best Documentary Short at the Lift-Off Film Festivals and for the Film Craft Award at the Play Short International Film Awards, won Best First Time Filmmaker at the Roma Short Film Festival and Cine Paris Film Festival, Best MicroFilmat the New Wave Short Film Festival and Tokyo International Short Film Festival, and was a nominee for Best Short at the Stockholm City Film Festival. His short film trilogy Take Um embodies a fresh perspective of the reenactment documentary form in which reality and fiction blur as one while dealing with themes such as identity, self, language, dreams, relationships and performance.
