MINHA MÃE É UMA VACA

Left in her aunt’s care on a family ranch at the edge of the burning Brazilian wetlands, 12-year-old Mia is desperate for her mother’s love. But in this volatile natural world, with the looming threat of a deadly jaguar consuming the family, love comes in an unexpected form.

Moara Passoni

Brazilian writer and director, she wrote and directed the feature-length essay film Extase, which received critical acclaim and won a gamut of international awards. Moara was co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated The Edge of Democracy. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Filmmaking” by Filmmaker Magazine. She is developing her narrative feature debut Cost of Living and her TV series Strikers. She’s a founding member of the BrazilianFilmmakerCollective.