Raul Perez
Screenwriter
Raul Perez is a screenwriter. He has written scripts for successful series such as the Netflix hit-show "Sintonia" (2020-23) and the Paramount+ miniseries "Anderson SPIDER Silva" (2023), based on the life of the UFC champion. He is the screenwriter-collaborator of the feature documentary "Luiz Melodia: No Coração do Brasil" (2024), selected for the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema - BAFICI and released during the closing of the É Tudo Verdade 2024 festival. With the feature film "K-Preto", currently in development, he took part in TV Globo/FLUP's Laboratório Negras Narrativas (Black Narratives Laboratory) and received an award in the El Principio del Film section at Ventana Sur (Argentina). He is the creator of film and series projects that have won public and private calls for proposals and participated in national and international events, including SERIESMANIA (France) and IDFA (Amsterdam).
He is a founding partner of MUNDI Filmes, a development production company focused on black narratives. As a producer, he has participated in markets in Brazil and abroad, including the Marché du Film / Cannes Film Festival (France). In 2020, he was selected for the Creative Collaboratory, Netflix Brazil's script room leader development lab. In 2023, he won an exchange grant from Spcine to take part in an intensive film directing program at the New York Film Academy. Outside of his creative work, Raul co-founded the Nicho 54 Institute, dedicated to the career development of black professionals in the audiovisual market.
With 10 years' experience in the communications field and a manager with experience in coordinating multidisciplinary teams, he studied journalism at PUC-SP and the University of Coimbra. As a reporter, he covered the political and market sections of Culture, the creative economy and the cultural agenda of the city of São Paulo. Before transitioning to screenwriting, from 2014 to 2019 she led the communications department at Spcine, a public company that stimulates the audiovisual sector, where she coordinated public relations, digital marketing, press relations, content production and events.
At the same time, she directed and executive produced the documentary "Quando Sinto que Já Sei" (2014) about new educational practices in Brazil. Released under creative commons, the documentary was entirely funded by collective financing, had a preview at an education event at UNESCO headquarters in Paris and was released simultaneously in 180 sessions in more than 12 countries, including Germany, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina, England and the United States. It has over 1 million views on YouTube.