Gabriela Amaral Almeida is a film director, screenwriter and playwright. With a master’s degree in Horror Literature and Film from UFBA (Brazil) and specialization in Screenwriting from Cuba's Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV), she directed the thriller O Animal cordial (2016) and the horror film A Sombra do pai (2017), with which she was selected for the Sundance Screenwriting and Direction Laboratories (US, 2014). In the US, she is represented by WME (William Morris Endeavor).