Bárbara Velloso
Director and Screenwriter
Bárbara Velloso is a screenwriter and editor. She studied film at UNESA and began her career editing musical films such as the opera “Alabê de Jerusalém” and institutional films, but it was in Angola that she established herself as a screenwriter from 2011 onward, developing TV programs for TPA and TVZIMBO and historical documentaries such as “Langidila, diário de um exílio sem regresso” and “Vitória é Certa”, about the country’s Independence.
From 2019 on, she joined the writing teams of Globoplay series “Arcanjo Renegado” (Season 2) and “A Divisão” (Seasons 3 and 4), and was also one of the writers of the series “Tarã” (Disney+). In 2024, she wrote Seasons 1 and 2 of the documentary series “Afro Fluxo” (Canal Bis) and the DOCTV “Viver Lunar” (Canal Off).
She has taken part in the curation of festivals and public calls (Sesc Pulsar, Sesc Argumenta, Fade To Black, Cine Tamoios). She won both the Audience Jury and Technical Jury awards at Rota Festival with the feature film “Afrika”, which was also selected for the Globo/Flup Black Narratives Lab in 2018. She was selected as one of the screenwriters for Netflix’s programs “Segundo Ato” in 2023 and “Estalo Criativo - Creative Spark Romance Ideation Workshop” in 2025.