Karen Akerman
- Directing
Biography
Partner of the independent production company Pela Madrugada. She worked as editor in over forty films (features and shorts). She was awarded the Grand Brazilian Film Award - Best Editing for Fiction (2015) and Best Documentary Editing (2009); ABC award for Best Editing Fiction (2015); among many others. She made five short films. Her work has been shown at festivals in Rotterdam, Uppsala, Cine//B, Alcine, Brasilia, Cine PE and awarded at festivals in Tabor, DocLisboa, Rio Film Festival, Short Film, Santa Maria da Feira, Recife window, Cine Scheme New. As a producer she was responsible for more than twenty short films. She collaborated as Curator, programmer and jury in festivals and shows in Brazil and Portugal.
Known for
Filmography
- Funk · Editing
- Eclipse · Editing
- Drenched in Blood · Editing
- America · Editing
- I Only Rest in the Storm · Editing
- Raul Seixas: Let Me Sing · Editing
- Aurora · Editing
- Sulfur · Director
- Greice · Editing
- The Fisherman's Daughter · Editing
- Aunt Virginia · Editing
- Guarda Vieja 3458 timbre 3/6 · Director
- Helena de Guaratiba · Producer
- The Soul of Things · Producer
- Lilith · Editing
- Secret Friend · Editing
- Espero que Esta te Encontre e que Estejas Bem · Editing
- The Wind Blows the Border · Editorial Consultant
- Hilda's Short Summer · Editing
- The Fever · Editing
- Depois da Primavera · Editing
- Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine · Editing
- Mulher Oceano · Editing
- Na Ilha · Self
- Nona. If They Soak Me, I'll Burn Them · Editing
- The Father's Shadow · Editing
- The Dead Queen · Editorial Consultant
- The Trial · Editing
- In a Foreign Country · Director
- Confident · Director
- Future June · Editing
- Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe · Director, Editing
- Hopefuls · Editing
- October Is Over · Screenplay, Director
- O Senhor do Labirinto · Editing
- A Wolf at the Door · Editing
- Parque Soviético · Editing
- Tales of the Tide · Editing
- As Canalhas · Editing
- The Gravedigger · Editing
- Feijoada Completa · Editing
- Fire · Director, Editing
- Who lives in my mind · Editing
- Lands · Editing
- Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was · Editing
- Arca D'Água · Editing
- Alaska · Editing
- A party that fell from the sky · Editing, Director
- Margin · Editing
- Breathless · Editing, Director
- Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am · Editing
- Porcos Corpos · Editing