Manuela Bernardi

Manuela Bernardi is a film and TV writer based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she was born and raised. In television, she has written on shows for TV Globo, TBS, GNT, Multishow, and the History Channel. In film, she has developed features for Canal+ and collaborated on Os Fins e os Meios, a political thriller by award-winning director Murilo Salles, which won Best Screenplay at Festival do Rio 2014. She wrote the screenplay for the short The Healing Tree, which won USC’s Peter Stark Special Project grant and went on to be selected for Cannes' Short Film Corner. With a BA in Journalism from PUC-Rio, Manuela got her MFA in writing for screen and television from USC in Los Angeles, which she attended on a Fulbright/CAPES scholarship.