Carolina Markowicz

Carolina Markowicz is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter,[1] whose debut feature film Charcoal (Carvão) premiered in 2022.[2]

Based in São Paulo, she directed a number of short films in her early career, most notably winning the Queer Palm at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for The Orphan (O Órfão).[3] She was subsequently a co-creator of the television series Nobody's Looking (Ninguém Tá Olhando).[4]

Charcoal premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[5]

Her second film, Toll (Pedágio), was screened in the Centrepiece program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival,[6][7] where Markowicz was named as the recipient of the Emerging Talent Award.[8]

  1. ^ John Hopewell, Callum McLennan, Anna Marie de la Fuente and Holly Jones, "Brazil: 10 Next Gen Talents to Track". Variety, February 18, 2023.
  2. ^ Holly Jones, "Urban Sales Swoops on Carolina Markowicz’s Toronto-San Sebastian Title ‘Charcoal’". Variety, August 11, 2022.
  3. ^ Rhonda Richford, "Cannes: Lukas Dhont’s ‘Girl’ Awarded Queer Palm Prize". The Hollywood Reporter, May 18, 2018.
  4. ^ Emiliano Granada, "Daniel Rezende on Netflix Brazilian Series ‘Nobody’s Looking’". Variety, December 6, 2019.
  5. ^ Jeremy Kay, "Frances O’Connor’s ‘Emily’ to open TIFF Platform alongside films from Maïmouna Doucouré, Rima Das". Screen Daily, August 3, 2022.
  6. ^ Lazic, Elena (2023-08-14). "Toronto unveils the rich line-up of its Centrepiece programme". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
  7. ^ John Hazelton, "TIFF sets Centrepiece line-up of international cinema". Screen Daily, August 10, 2023.
  8. ^ Jeremy Kay, "TIFF adds Carolina Markowicz, Lukasz Zal, Andy Lau to tribute line-up". Screen Daily, August 22, 2023.