Carolina Fernandes has a master's degree in cultural production with a specialization in cinema at the Maine Media Workshops school in Maine, in the United States. She is a screenwriter, director and producer based in Amazonas for 15 years. Director-researcher of the film “We are Guardians”, which won the award for best documentary by the public at the 47th São Paulo International Film Festival and dozens of national and international festivals. She worked as assistant director on the film “The Last Forest” (winner of the audience award at the Panorama show at the Berlinale in 2021) and on the film “Ex-Pajé” (awarded at the Berlin Festival in 2018 and at the É Tudo Verdade festival). She directed and wrote the short “Simplicity”, selected at the 20th São Paulo International Short Film Festival. As the head of ‘Banksia Films’, his short and feature films were selected and awarded at several national and international festivals. Among them, “Walden” won best Swiss film at the 2018 Zurich Film Festival. “Brazil – A natural History” won best film at the Deauville Green Awards in France in 2016. Currently, as a director and screenwriter, she debuted her most recent short film “Pirarucu, o respiro da Amazônia”, at the international festival in Los Angeles, at the Pasadena international Film Festival (PIFF). Now she is in pre-production on her first feature film “Mães da Terra” in addition to directing the Discovery Science channel series ‘Mysteries of the Abandoned’ in the Amazon.