Biography

Piero Sbragia is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. Directed "República das Saúvas" (2021), chosen by the jury as Best Short Film in Documentary at the 6th International Film Festival of Santos and official selection of Festival Estação Virtual - 35 Years of Brazilian Cinema, Unified Filmmakers Media Library and São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum, "Uma Bala" (2018), official selection of the 29th São Paulo International Short Film Festival and the 12th Film and Human Rights Exhibition, "Em Refúgio", a project made in partnership with the UN and exhibited at the 1st International Meeting on Migração e Refúgio and "Descobrir: Os Criadores de Saci" (2014), official selection of the 13th Children's Film Festival in Florianópolis, of the 1st Children's Film Festival of Porto Alegre and highlight of the 15th edition of the Festival Nacional do Saci in Botucatu. He wrote "Novas Fronteiras do Documentário: Entre a Factualidade e a Ficcionalidade", published by Chiado Books in 2020. He has a master's degree in Education, Art and History of Culture and a degree in Social Communication, with specialization in Journalism, from Universidade Mackenzie. He specialized in Documentary Cinema at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP) and the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (CPDOC).