About
Juraci Júnior is a film director working in fiction, documentary and music videos. He takes part in film festivals in Brazil and abroad, and in panels and debates on contemporary Brazilian film and television.
In film, he directs and writes short films. The music documentary Concerto de Quintal (2025) is his first feature. In 2024, his screenplay for Kika Não Foi Convidada won the 25th Short Film Project Lab at the Curta Cinema festival in Rio de Janeiro.
He directed the animated films Pela Água, Sempre! (2025), by Douglas Magalhães, A História de Porto Velho Para Crianças (2023) and Nazaré: do verde ao barro (2021). He directed and wrote the documentaries Resistência (2023), which won the audience award at the Visões Periféricas festival and the editing award at Cine PE, and Águas Que Me Tocam (2022), winner of the audience award at the Circuito Penedo de Cinema. He also wrote the fiction film Balanceia (2017).
He directed the documentaries on permanent display at the Museu da Estrada de Ferro Madeira-Mamoré, the railway museum in Porto Velho, and the educational series O Melhor de PVH, made for the city government.
For eight years he ran the entertainment content of SIC TV, the Record affiliate in Rondônia. Today he is Creative Director at Casa do Rio Filmes. He is a member of ABRA, the Brazilian Association of Screenwriters, an advertising professional and a specialist in Content Creation Direction. He wrote the poetry and photography book Pele de Rio (2021) and co-authored Flor do Maracujá (2020), a study of the largest June festival in Brazil’s North region.
Filmography
The 13 films he directed, newest first.
- 2027Divino CompanheiroIn post-productionDocumentary · 80 minDirector
- 2027O Som do LagoIn post-productionFiction · 17 minDirector
- 2026Locomotiva 18: a condutora de sonhosDocumentary · 17 minDirector and writer
- 2026Kika Não Foi ConvidadaFiction · 15 minDirector and writer
- 2025Catador de SonsDocumentary · 9 minDirector
- 2025ArrotoExperimental · 4 minDirector
- 2025Pela Água, Sempre!Animation · 8 minDirector
- 2025Concerto de QuintalDocumentary · 80 minDirector and writer
- 2024Folia de Reis: Fé, Devoção e TradiçãoDocumentary · 17 minDirector and writer
- 2023ResistênciaDocumentary · 9 minDirector and writer
- 2022Águas Que Me TocamDocumentary · 17 minDirector and writer
- 2021Nazaré: do Verde ao BarroAnimation · 8 minDirector and writer
- 2017BalanceiaFiction · 9 minWriter, director (with Thiago Oliveira) and actor
Awards
- Concerto de Quintal
- 202611º Amazônia (fi)Doc Festival Pan-Amazônico de Cinema (Belém, PA); Honorable Mention
- 2025Cinemato (Cuiabá, MT); Best Documentary Feature
- 2025Cinemato (Cuiabá, MT); Best Film, Popular Jury
- Kika Não Foi Convidada
- 202637º Festival Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo - Kinoforum (São Paulo, SP); Audience Award
- 20264º Cine RO (Porto Velho, RO); Itaú Cultural Play Award
- 20264º Cine RO (Porto Velho, RO); Mistika Award
- 202633º Festival de Cinema de Vitória (Vitória, ES); Honorable Mention
- 2026Festcine Itaúna (Caruaru, PE); Honorable Mention
- 20269ª Mostra SESC de Cinema (Brazil); Licensing Award
- 202623º Festival Internacional de Cinema Infantil - FICI (Rio de Janeiro, RJ); Honorable Mention
- 20261º Curta Caxias Festival Internacional de Cinema (Caxias do Sul, RS); Best Film
- 20261º Curta Caxias Festival Internacional de Cinema (Caxias do Sul, RS); Best Screenplay
- 20261º Curta Caxias Festival Internacional de Cinema (Caxias do Sul, RS); Best Director
- 20261º Curta Caxias Festival Internacional de Cinema (Caxias do Sul, RS); Best Editing
- 2024Laboratório de Roteiro Curta Cinema (Rio de Janeiro, RJ); Best Short Film Screenplay Project
- Resistência
- 20256º Curta na Serra (Bezerros, PE); Honorable Mention
- 202417º Curta Taquary (Taquaritinga do Norte, PE); Best Sound
- 202417º Curta Taquary (Taquaritinga do Norte, PE); Best Costume Design
- 202417º Curta Taquary (Taquaritinga do Norte, PE); Best Editing
- 202417º Visões Periféricas (Rio de Janeiro, RJ); Best Film, Popular Jury
- 202428º CINE PE (Recife, PE); Best Editing
- 20231ª Mostra Cine Doc Bragança (Bragança, PA); Honorable Mention
- Águas Que Me Tocam
- 2024Best Short Film from Rondônia - 2º Fest Cine RO (Porto Velho, RO)
- 2023Best Editing - Mostra Por um mundo Melhor - 16º Curta Taquary (Taquaritinga do Norte, PE)
- 2023Best Film - Popular Jury - Mostra Velho Chico de Cinema Ambiental - Circuito Penedo de Cinema (Penedo, AL)
- 2023Honorable Mention - Mostra Velho Chico de Cinema Ambiental - Circuito Penedo de Cinema (Penedo, AL)
- 2023Best Cinematography - 18º Comunicurtas (Campina Grande, PB)
- 2022PlanetaDoc Brasil Award - 8º Festival Planetadoc (Florianópolis, SC)
- Nazaré: do Verde ao Barro
- 202215º Curta Taquary (Taquaritinga do Norte, PE); Best Cinematography
- 1st round of the Lei Aldir Blanc in Rondônia; Jair Pistolino Award
- Balanceia
- 2017Cineamazônia; Honorable Mention
- Que Assim Seja
- 2017Cineamazônia; Mapinguari Trophy for Best Production from Rondônia
- Frei Molambo
- 2009V Festival de Teatro da Amazônia (Manaus, AM); Best Actor
Education
- Postgraduate degree in Content Creation DirectionUniversitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
- Acting for TV and filmEscola Nou Prodigi, Barcelona, 2013
- Social Communication, AdvertisingBachelor’s degree
In front of the camera
Theatre workMy first experiences as an actor were in theatre. Comedy, street theatre, puppetry, children’s musicals, all the way to the monologue Frei Molambo, by Lourdes Ramalho, which earned me the Best Actor award at the 5th Festival de Teatro da Amazônia (Manaus, 2009).
In 2008 I made my debut as a television host, anchoring shopping shows, then entertainment programmes, reports, special series, segments and sketches for the internet. In 2017 we launched Chef de Casa, the first reality show in the state, which had a second season in 2018.
In 2013 I studied acting for TV and film at the Nou Prodigi school in Barcelona, where I shot a few short films. In Brazil, I acted in Quimera, by Tarcísio Lara Puiati, Que Assim Seja, by Érica Pascoal, and Balanceia, which I also wrote and directed.
Photo: Avener Prado, 2012 
Photo: Rodrigo Erse 
Photo: Avener Prado, 2012 
Photo: Gabriel Ivan 
Photo: Avener Prado, 2012
Press
Short bio and photos to download. For more photos and interviews, get in touch.
Short bio
Juraci Júnior is a director and screenwriter from Mato Grosso, based in Porto Velho, in the Brazilian Amazon. He directs documentaries, fiction, animation and music videos. He is a member of ABRA, the Brazilian screenwriters’ association, and Creative Director at Casa do Rio Filmes.
Testimonials
“É um ator que todo diretor sonha trabalhar. É hábil e inteligente, que soube, em tempo recorde, entender e dar o melhor de si para seu personagem. A performance de Juraci em ‘Quimera’ é uma grande homenagem à comédia popular brasileira.”
Translation: He is the kind of actor every director dreams of working with. Skilful and intelligent, he managed, in record time, to understand his character and give it his best. Juraci’s performance in ‘Quimera’ is a great tribute to Brazilian popular comedy.
“Juraci tiene un talento natural fuera de lo común, una presencia frente a la cámara muy importante y una facilidad impresionante para adaptarse a diferente tipo de personaje.”
Translation: Juraci has an extraordinary natural talent, a very strong presence in front of the camera and an impressive ability to adapt to different kinds of characters.
“Con él, llegó la elegancia, la clase y el hambre de cámara: se la come.”
Translation: With him came elegance, class and a hunger for the camera: he devours it.
“Sem perder a trilha crítica do humor, desenvolve sua trajetória pelo mundo com um sorriso inabalável, sem temer ‘perder sua força’ por causa disso. Como não sentir o ambiente iluminado quando um ser humano como esse chega nele?”
Translation: Without losing the critical edge of humour, he makes his way through the world with an unshakeable smile, unafraid of ‘losing his strength’ because of it. How can a room not light up when a human being like that walks in?
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