Stella Carneiro is a Brazilian film director, writer and producer who has worked on over thirty short-films, a few Brazilian features and television series for some of Brazil’s biggest film production companies such as Gullane, Paris Entertainment, TV Globo and REC Produtores. Stella has a degree in Cinema from FAAP/São Paulo, an M.A in Screenwriting through the Erasmus program Kino Eyes - The European Fiction Masters and is currently a PhD scholarship from FILMEU at Universidade Lusófona.

Stella worked as an assistant screenwriter for the 2nd season of the television series Jailers, as well as alongside director Marcelo Gomes’ for his film Joaquim, which premiered at Berlinale. A feature-film screenplay written by her was awarded Honorable Mention in the most prestigious screenplay festival in Latin America, FRAPA, located in Porto Alegre, while the short-films she wrote “Ledsin” (2021), “Uibu Talu” (2022) and “Days Without” (2022) have been screened in numerous festivals around the world, such as Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), Brussels Short Film Festival and Odense International Film Festival in Denmark. Stella was a finalist at the Baltic Pitching Forum 2020 and was recently selected to take part of the European Short Pitch held in France. Her directorial debut “Golden Shower” is now being distributed.