Cas­si­ano Prado

Cas­si­ano Pra­do is a Brazili­an-Brit­ish writer/​director spe­cial­iz­ing in sus­pense and philo­soph­ic­al drama. With over a dec­ade dir­ect­ing high-pro­file com­mer­cials, he deb­uted in fic­tion with a Fox adapt­a­tion of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales set in São Paulo, fol­lowed by writing/​directing Netflix’s Invis­ible City, a Brazili­an super­nat­ur­al hit explor­ing forest myth­o­logy. He blends atmo­spher­ic storytelling with themes of guilt, faith, and justice through the lens of genre cinema. An alum­nus of Seri­al Eyes at DFFB Ber­lin and the UK’s NFTS, as well as fel­low­ships includ­ing Nip­kow and Torino Film Lab, he trains as a Jungi­an psy­cho­ana­lyst at SAAJA, South Afric­an Asso­ci­ation of Jungi­an Ana­lysts. He lives in Ber­lin and works across Ger­many, the UK, and Brazil.