Daniela Thomas

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1959, her career began in the early 1980s at La MaMa Experimental Theater in New York. She then returned to Brazil and worked as a writer and co-director with Walter Salles on the feature films Terra Estrangeira (Foreign Land), O Primeiro Dia (Midnight) and Linha de Passe. In 2009 she co-directed Insolação (Sunstroke) with Felipe Hirsch. Alongside her film work she is also a theatre director and writer, designs opera and theatre sets, exhibitions and installations. She was an artistic director of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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