Petra Costa Filmmaker

Petra Costa has been telling stories in the crossroads between the personal and the political and trying to understand the unequal society we live in, focused in her home country of Brazil. Her latest documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and won best documentary at the Havana and Montclair film festivals. Previously she directed, The Edge of Democracy, which was nominated for an Academy Award and was listed by the New York Times as one of the best 10 films of 2019. It won the Peabody Award, Spirit Awards and best director at DOC NYC.