Gabriel Mascaro

Gabriel Mascaro (b. 1983, Recife, Brazil) is a Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist whose work blends documentary sensibility with bold fictional experimentation. Emerging from Brazil’s contemporary art scene, he gained attention with documentaries such as High-Rise (2009) and Housemaids (2012), which explore class and private space. His fiction features August Winds (2014), Neon Bull (2015, Venice Orizzonti Special Jury Prize), and Divine Love (2019, Sundance) examine desire, labor, and faith within shifting Brazilian realities. Mascaro’s cinema is marked by sensual imagery, social observation, and a provocative reimagining of bodies, power, and modern mythologies in contemporary Brazil.