Born in 1989 in Brasília, Brazil, she is an Italo-Brazilian academic, filmmaker, film programmer, and cultural critic. She holds a PhD in Literature, Culture, and Contemporaneity from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, 2022), with a thesis dissertation on the cinema of Peter Tscherkassky, funded by a CAPES-PROSUC merit-base scholarship. She was a CAPES-PrInt Visiting PhD Researcher at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal, Porto, Portugal (EA-CITAR-UCP). As a film critic affiliated with ABRACCINE and FIPRESCI, she has contributed to O Estado de S. Paulo and Público, as well as to specialized outlets such as Revista Cinética, criticos.com, Doc-Online, JSTA, Interact, RCL, Aniki, [in]transition, and La Furia Umana. She was a tenured professor in the Department of Performing Arts at the Federal University of São João del-Rei (DEACE-UFSJ), Brazil. In 2022, she served as Special Advisor to the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the Government of the Federal District (SECEC/DF), Brasília, Brazil. Between 2023 and 2025, she worked as Scientific Communication Manager at ICNOVA – NOVA University Lisbon and as Guest Assistant Professor in the Department of Scientific Communication at DCC-NOVA-FCSH. She is currently a programmer for the Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, an Academy Award®-qualifying festival. In 2026, she received the MSCA Seal of Excellence under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral European Fellowship programme.