Luiza Paiva is a Creative Producer with an MA degree in Media Practice for Development and Social Change at the University of Sussex as a Stuart Hall Scholar. She specializes in the production of films with a human rights angle and is a member of the Global Impact Producers Alliance created by DocSociety. She started her career at VideoFilms working for the award-winning filmmaker Walter Salles and has recently worked on several features, including Firebrand, directed by Karim Ainouz (Official Competition Cannes Film Festival 2023), and on projects produced under the slate of the Academy award-winning UK production company Violet Films.
projects in progress
Puahu (documentary) - Directed by Zahy Tentehar and Darília Rocha, in development, UK/BRA; producer. Premiere planned for 2026. Artist Darília dreamed about the death of a child and Zahy is sleep deprived indigenous woman.
A Summer Cloud (short fiction) - directed by Rasha Hosny, in development; Premiere planned for 2025, producer. Story of Farida, a 40-year-old woman who receives unexpected results from fertility tests she insisted on taking.
NDA - Untitled Music Doc (documentary) - Directed by Joanna Natasegara, 90 min, UK, Premiere planned for 2025.
EXAK WI (hybrid / experimental) - Directed by Zahy Tentehar and Luciana Dal Ri, 15 min, United Kingdom, work-in-progress cut funded by Casa Film Festival (UK) and Arts Council in 2023; Premiere planned for 2025; producer.
finished projects
We Dare to Dream (documentary) - Directed by Waad Al-Kateab, 98 min, United Kingdom, 2023; production coordinator.
Heart of Invictus (docuseries) - Directed by Orlando Von Einsiedel, United Kingdom, 2023; Jr. production manager.
Mariner of the Mountains (documentary) - Directed by Karim Ainouz, 98 min, Brazil & France, 2021; coordinating producer for VideoFilms.
Firebrand (fiction) - Directed by Karim Ainouz, 120 min, United Kingdom, 2023; assistant director/assistant script supervisor.
The Falling Sky (documentary) - Directed by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, 110 min, Brazil,Italy,France, 2024; researcher.
News
new project / EXAK WI / Luiza Paiva / New project has been added - 26.10.2024
new project / The Falling Sky / Luiza Paiva / New project has been added - 26.10.2024
new project / NDA / Luiza Paiva / New project has been added - 26.10.2024
new project / Firebrand / Luiza Paiva / New project has been added - 26.10.2024
new project / A Summer Cloud / Luiza Paiva / New project has been added - 16.10.2024
new project / Puahu / Luiza Paiva / New project has been added - 16.10.2024
new project / Mariner of the Mountains / Luiza Paiva / New project has been added - 16.10.2024
new project / Heart of Invictus / Luiza Paiva / New project has been added - 16.10.2024
new project / We Dare to Dream / Luiza Paiva / New project has been added - 16.10.2024
