12 Facts About Gabriel Mascaro

Gabriel Mascaro was born on September 24,1983 and is a Brazilian visual artist and film director.

Gabriel Mascaro started his career as a documentary-maker in 2008, with KFZ-1348, Um Lugar ao Sol and Domestica.

Gabriel Mascaro created an installation entitled Nao e Sobre Sapatos and the photographic series Desamar.

Gabriel Mascaro's works have been screened or exhibited at leading festivals and events, including the IDFA, Locarno International Film Festival, Rotterdam, La Biennale di Venezia - Orizzonti, Oberhausen, the Guggenheim, Videobrasil, MACBA- Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Barcelona, MoMA, Panorama da Arte Brasileira no MAM-SP and Bienal de Sao Paulo.

Gabriel Mascaro has done artistic residencies at Videoformes, France, through Videobrasil, and at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Gabriel Mascaro was born in Recife, the capital of the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, on September 24,1983.

Gabriel Mascaro holds a degree in Social Communication from the Federal University of Pernambuco.

Gabriel Mascaro began his career in 2008 with the documentary KFZ-1348, which he co-directed with the filmmaker Marcelo Pedroso.

In 2012, Gabriel Mascaro released his best-known documentary, Housemaids, in which he handed the camera over to seven teenagers tasked with filming their respective housemaids for the period of one week so that the director could turn the raw footage into a finished film.

In parallel, Gabriel Mascaro launched the short-film Ebb and Flow, a documentary that portrays the everyday life of Rodrigo, a deaf man whose job is to instal sound systems in cars.

At the Marrakech Festival, Gabriel Mascaro received the best director award from the hands of director Francis Ford Coppola, one of the jurors at the event.

In Brazil, Gabriel Mascaro belongs to a recent generation of filmmakers making waves on the international circuit, including Kleber Mendonca Filho, Marcelo Gomes, Claudio Assis and Karin Ainouz.