Emanuel Lavor is a filmmaker, actor and an analog photographer from Brazil born in 1995. He completed a master’s degree in scriptwriting at EICTV, in Cuba (2021-2022), where he developed the project of his first feature film, THE JAGUAR. With the script, he participated in several labs and at the 13th Brasil Cine Mundi, where he won the Official Jury prize, the Audience Design Award (World Cinema Fund – Berlinale, 2023) and the BioBioLab Award (Chile, 2022). THE BEADS (directed in partnership with Rafaela Camelo), is his second short.