Lud­m­ila Naves

Lud­m­ila Naves is a Brazili­an writer and dir­ect­or whose work is shaped by her upbring­ing in a work­ing-class neigh­bor­hood of São Paulo. A gradu­ate of the Uni­ver­sity of São Paulo’s Film School and an alumna of UCLA’s Pro­fes­sion­al Pro­gram in Writ­ing for Tele­vi­sion, she later joined the Women in Film Los Angeles Writers and Showrun­ners ment­or­ship. In 2022, she received Brazil’s Screen­writer of the Year Award. Her exper­i­ence spans inter­na­tion­al writers’ rooms across Lat­in Amer­ica, the U.S., and Europe, includ­ing an Inter­na­tion­al Emmy–nominated series. Now based in Ber­lin, she explores char­ac­ter-driv­en stor­ies blend­ing emo­tion­al depth with crime, thrill­er, and mystery.