Biography
Petra Costa is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and narrator. She was born on 8 July 1983 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. She studied performing arts at the University of São Paulo, anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University, and completed a master's degree at the London School of Economics.
Her feature documentaries include Elena (2012), which premiered at IDFA, The Edge of Democracy (2019), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), which she also wrote and produced. She is the founder of the production company Busca Vida Filmes.
