Davi Pretto
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Davi Pretto is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. In 2014, at the age of 25, he premiered his feature debut "Castanha" in the Forum section of the 64th Berlin Film Festival. The film also competed at 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, as well as the Critics Prize and the Best Screenplay Award at the 49th Brasília Film Festival. He was a DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence fellow in 2018. His third feature, the horror drama "Continent", was made in co-production between Brazil, France and Argentina with the support of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund. In 2024, "Continent" was screened in the main competition of the 57th Sitges Film Festival and won Best Director at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival in the New Trends section. His fourth feature, the lo-fi sci-fi "Future Future", premiered at the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Proxima competition and later won Best Film and Best Screenplay at the 58th Brasília Film Festival.
