Paula Sacchetta

Paula has been working for over ten years as a documentary filmmaker, directing and writing. Her feature documentary "Faces of Harassment" was released in September 2016 at the 49th Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema. In 2017, the film had its TV premiere on Canal Brasil, and is distributed in the United States and Canada by Women Make Movies, as well as on some streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime and Net Now. Paula also directed the documentary "Truth 12.528", about the Brazilian National Truth Commission, released in 2013 at the 37th São Paulo International Film Festival, which toured several Brazilian and international festivals. A journalism graduate, Paula won the Vladimir Herzog Prize for Amnesty and Human Rights in 2012, and covered the first Egyptian presidential elections in Cairo for TV Folha. In 2017, she directed and wrote the documentary series "Families", about LGBT+ young people on the outskirts of São Paulo, a project funded by the Public TVs Call for Proposals that aired on TV Cultura, TV Brasil and other public broadcasters, and which in 2019 won the Prix Jeunesse Iberoamericano in the non-fiction category 11-15 years. In 2018, she wrote and directed an eight-episode documentary series on the prison system for Canal Curta!, "I, a prisoner", as well as a short documentary, "The more prisoners, the greater the profit", about the arrival of private prisons in Brazil. During the Covid-19 quarantine, she released a short film all made remotely about the arrival of the virus in the prison system and a short film about sex in old age filmed months before, "Turn on the lights". In 2023, she launched a 5 episode TV series based on the short about sexuality in old age also called "Turn on the lights". At the end of 2021, Paula released an episode she directed for a TV series based on the book "The burnout society", as well as a telefilm, "Voices", for the E! Entertainment channel, about women and diversity on screen. In March 2022, Paula launched a series of three 20-minute episodes, which she wrote and directed, about the Saul Klein Affaire, a sort of a Brazilian Jeffrey Epstein. Throughout the year she wrote the script for three documentary feature films: two of which were funded by SPCine's development call and a third, for HBOMAX, "Exposed", about Alexandre Herchcovitch, a famous Brazilian fashion designer. In March 2023, she launched a podcast of 8 episodes of half an hour each, created, directed and written by her, produced by Rádio Novelo for Wondery, Amazon Music's podcast studio. Paula also teaches documentary courses in schools and cultural centers.