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name: "Fernando Coimbra"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T03:39:01.111253+00:00"
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# Fernando Coimbra

Director. Born 1 January 1976 in Ribeirão Preto.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1976, Ribeirão Preto

## Biography

Fernando Coimbra is a Brazilian director and screenwriter. He graduated in film and video from the University of São Paulo in 1999 and began his career making short films that screened at festivals including Clermont-Ferrand.

His feature debut, the thriller *A Wolf at the Door* (2013), won awards at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, and received a Directors Guild of America nomination. He subsequently directed episodes of *Narcos* (2015–2017) and the Netflix film *Sand Castle* (2017).

Coimbra has also directed episodes of *Perry Mason* (2023) and created the miniseries *Senna* (2024). In 2017 he received a Sundance Institute Global Filmmaking Award.

*Sources: imdb.com, pt.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Perry Mason* (2020), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/perry-mason.md)

## Also known for

- *Narcos* (2015), Director
- *Sand Castle* (2017), Director
- *Outcast* (2016), Director
- *A Wolf at the Door* (2013), Director, Screenplay
- *WHAT / IF* (2019), Director
- *Radioactive Emergency* (2026), Director

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