Gabriel Souza Nunes

Gabriel Souza Nunes (He/They) is an award-winning Brazilian Writer & Director based in Vancouver, BC. After graduating with honours from Vancouver Film School (2019), they had their directorial debut with the sci-fi short film The Party at the Whistler Film Festival 2019, followed right after by short films like Subject 42 (2019), Alone (2020), Goodbye (2021) and All The Things I Never Said To You (currently in post-production). Gabriel believes in the power of mixing emotions, memories and technology as a meaningful form of human expression, navigating through sci-fi, magical realism and improv, always adding a surrealistic twist to their work. They are a strong advocate for representation in front and behind the camera, especially for the Latinx and LGBTQAI+ communities. Their first short documentary I Remember Everything (2022) won Best Latin-Canadian Short Film at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival 2022, and in January 2023 Gabriel was selected as one of the Crazy8s top 6 directors with the script Passiflora (2023), a queer magical realism short inspired by the Brazilian folklore surrounding the passion fruit.