Helena de Castro

Born on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Graduated in film at Universidade Federal Fluminense UFF. Produced Bollywood Embodied (27") winner of the special prize from the Brazilian Documentarists and Short Filmmakers Association at Femina Festival 2008. As story producer and assistant director worked in documentary series for Discovery Channel, BBC, HBO, Turner International, Canal Futura, CineBrasil TV, Red Bull TV and many others. In 2018, was part of the scriptwriting team that won the FIESP/SESI-SP Best Documentary TV Series award for Outros Tempos: Velhos, a series from HBO Max Channel in Brazil. From 2017 to 2020, directed four seasons of the experimental documentary series 302 for Canal Brasil a mosaic of women's stories, the most-watched show on the channel's online platform and three seasons of the series 502 about new masculinities. Produced the features I will never be the same directed by Alice Lanari and Diamond Rivers directed by Bill Benenson. In recent years she has directed several documentary series that gained popularity talking about relevant issues such as One Breath shot in a hospital during Covid, The Time We Have where journalist Leilane Neubarth interviews women over 60, Where's the Father a podcast about fatherhood presented by writer/actor Gregorio Duvivier for Amazon Audible and It's all them about the challenges women face in the world of sports. During the labs she recently participated in, she shot the short films That Song at Acampadoc 2023 in Panamá and The Fisherman (2024) at KinoGrarimba in Italy 2024. She is currently editing her first feature as a director Brotherhood of Weeping Men.