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, and is an audiovisual director and producer based in Amazonas for 12 years. Trained by the British and French TV industry for a period of 10 years, she has experience directing and producing factual entertainment series, high profile entertainment programs, reality and observation documentaries credited on BBC, National Geographic Channels, Smithsonian Channel, HBO, Netflix, Facebook Watch, Al Jazeera English, Discovery, Animal Planet, Arte France, among others. In addition, she produced and acted as assistant director in the film “Ex-Pajé” (awarded at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018 and at the It's All True festival) and in the film “The Last Forest” (winner of the public award at the Panorama da Berlinale in 2021) both directed by Luiz Bolognesi. Her work is intimately close to the Amazon, always attesting to the enormous capacity of this region to preserve itself while transforming its landscape and its people.