Thais Guisasola

Thais Guisasola is a Brazilian filmmaker, performer and awarded director and screenwriter,
born in 1987. Featuring works at Documenta 14, FICCI 2018, Reykjavik Int‘l Film Festival,
Queens Museum of Art NYC, Sesc TV, Museum de Fundatie Zwolle, among others. In
2018 Thais was awarded the Prize of Best Director at the Int. Cartagena Film Festival,
Colombia for “The Whisper of the Jaguar”. Thais is a Candomblé practitioner, tropikuir,
ecofeminist, and border-crosser, whose work is inspired by postcolonial theories, kuir feminism, and indigenous ancestral cultures.