Luciana has worked on several films as an assistant director and script supervisor. She later directed four short documentaries supported by the Bahia State Culture Fund (FUNCEB) and Brazil’s Audiovisual Law (Lei Rouanet), with sponsorship from Banco Santander. Her films have screened at dozens of festivals worldwide, including the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), the Santa Maria da Feira Film Festival in Portugal, and the Gramado Film Festival in Brazil.
She uses film as a participatory method in her research and is currently developing Fluxo Sagrado, a documentary based on her dissertation research in the Brazilian Amazon. She is also co-developing, with Bjørn Sletto, a documentary about the community-based park design project in Dove Springs, Austin.
Memories of Stones | Memória da Pedra. Brazil, 2015.
The film received the Kikito Award for Best Editing at the Gramado Film Festival in Brazil.
Seven Eight | Sete Oito. Brazil, 2014.
The film received the awards for Best Direction and Best Performance at the Festival de Cinema Baiano (FECIBA).
If This Street Were Mine | Se Essa Rua. Brazil, 2013.
The film was featured as the closing film of the Baixo Centro Festival in São Paulo.