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Mariana Bastos
Mariana Bastos explores cancel culture, fanaticism, and contemporary obsessions through provocative, fast-paced, and audacious genre filmmaking.
- Region
- São Paulo, SP, Sudeste
- Age
- 36
Authorial vision
Mariana Bastos crafts stories that expose the wounds of the digital age, social pressures on women, and the dynamics of faith and public image. In her cinema, suspense and irony serve as mechanisms for exploring isolation, the desperate search for validation, and veiled misogyny.
With dynamic direction and a strong visual appeal, the filmmaker moves between the dark humor of contemporary satire and the suffocating tension of psychological thrillers. Her directorial authorship stands out for its ability to create unsettling atmospheres and place complex, imperfect female characters at the center of stories driven by intense desires.
Filmography
- Santo Maldito
2023 · Series · Drama, Suspense · Director
Samuel, a failed pastor, offers money to Reinaldo, who is drowning in medical debt, to become a preacher. The atheist Reinaldo embarks on a strange and unlikely journey to become a religious leader.
- Raquel 1:1
2022 · Film · Horror, Suspense · Writer & Director · 90 min
Raquel is a teenager who moves with her father to a small town in search of a new life. During her first few days there, she comes to believe that she has been given an important and controversial mission related to the Bible.
- As Seguidoras
2022 · Series · Comédia, Suspense · Director
A social media influencer takes her obsession with her own image to the extreme, becoming an unsuspected serial killer.
- Alguma Coisa Assim
2017 · Film · Drama · Writer & Director · 81 min
Caio and Mari are two young adults whose relationship defies definition. Spanning ten years, the story moves between three pivotal moments when their desires come into conflict and their relationship is put to the test.
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