Maíra Bühler is an anthropologist by training and an action filmmaker. Her latest film, "Tell Her You Saw Me Cry" (2019) won the Best Film award at the international competitive showcase of the Olhar de Cinema festival, the Special Jury Prize at the Havana Film Festival, Best Ibero-American Film at the Uruguay International Film Festival, the Library Prize Cinéma Du Réel, among others. She is also one of the directors of the film "A Vida Privada dos Hipopótamos" (The Private Life of Hippos) (2014), which premiered at the FiD - Festival de Marseille and won the Best Editing Award at the Festival do Rio, the Critics' Award at CineCeará and an honorable mention at Cachoeira-doc; and the documentary "Elevado 3.5" (2007), winner of Best Brazilian Film at É Tudo Verdade. As a screenwriter, Maíra writes feature films and series. Her latest work was Matias Mariani's "Bird City" (2020), which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival Panorama and had its screenplay nominated for the Brazilian Film Grand Prix in 2021. She is currently working on the screenplay for the feature "A Wedding", awarded by the Hubert Bals Fund, which will be her first fiction film as a director.

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