Eliane Caffé graduated with a degree in psychology in 1987 and the following year left for Cuba to begin her filmmaking studies at the “Escola Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños”. In 1990 she traveled to Spain with a post-graduate scholarship for further studies in the humanities at the “Instituto de Estética e das Artes” at Madrid’s Autonomous University. On her return to Brazil, she continued with her filmmaking career by writing and directing shorts, feature films and TV series, which gained recognition with both critics and the public alike in important international film festivals. Throughout her trajectory, the director has worked increasingly more with themes revolving around the exploration of audiovisual languages used in “real conflict zones” – both in rural communities and in major urban centers. Her work is imbued with narrative experiments able to interact with real characters and make use of their collective life-experience repertoires by given them their own voice. More than just characters and settings, these collectives function on an equal basis with the film’s technical crew throughout the entire filmmaking process. Her partnership with art director Carla Caffé (the director’s sister) has been fundamental in assuring adequate tools for this procedure of collective creation. Both are presently focused on consolidating the practice of producing, and thinking, a more “polyphonic” or “dialogue-oriented” cinema which extends beyond the film locations.