Carolina Fernandes holds a master's degree in cultural production with a specialization in film from the Maine Media Workshops in Maine, United States. She is a screenwriter, director and producer who has lived in Amazonas for 15 years. She is the director researcher of the film “Somos Guardiões”, which won the audience award for best documentary at the 47th São Paulo International Film Festival and dozens of national and international festivals. She produced and is the assistant director on the film “A Última Floresta” (winner of the audience award at the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2021) and on the film “Ex-Pajé” (awarded at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018 and at the É Tudo Verdade festival). She directed and wrote the short film “Simplicity”, selected at the 20th São Paulo International Short Film Festival. As the head of ‘Banksia Films’, her short and feature films have been selected and awarded at several national and international festivals. Among them, “Walden” won the award for best Swiss film at the 2018 Zurich Film Festival. “Brazil – A natural History” won the award for best film at the Deauville Green Awards in France in 2016. Currently, as a director and screenwriter, she premiered her most recent short film “Pirarucu, o respiro da Amazônia” at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Pasadena International Film Festival (PIFF) and continues its journey through festivals around the world. It is competing for the prestigious Panda Award at the Wildscreen International Film Festival in Bristol, England, and is also being showcased at other international festivals, including the Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival, the Sondrio International Film Festival in Italy, and the 32nd ECOCINE 2024 – Festival of Environmental Cinema and Human Rights, Sustainability, and Childhood: Rights in the 21st Century. She is currently in pre-production on her first feature film “Mães da Terra”.