Davi Pretto

Biography

Davi Pretto is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. At the age of 25, he premiered his feature debut "Castanha" at the Forum section of the 64th Berlin Film Festival in 2014. The film also competed in festivals such as Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Bafici, Havana and Rio de Janeiro, where it won Best Film in the New Trends section. In 2017, his second feature, the neo-western "Rifle", was presented at the Forum section of the 67th Berlin Film Festival and later at the FID Marseille. The film won the Grand Prize at the Jeonju Film Festival and the Critics Prize and Best Screenplay Award at the 49th Brasília Film Festival. He was a DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence fellow in 2018. His third f...