NANI ESCOBAR
Nani Escobar is an editor, director and assistant director with experience in film, television, music videos, artistic, institutional and commercial videos.
In 2005, she began working for some of the best audiovisual production companies in the Brazilian market, including O2, FilmPlanet and Cabeça Amarela, serving brands such as Swatch, Nestlé, Fox, Coca-Cola, Vale do Rio Doce, Ministry of Health and Sesc.
Working as a freelancer in Rio de Janeiro since 2008, she has worked in commercial and institutional productions, also venturing into the arts. Among her achievements are assistant director on the short film "Peruca de Aquiles" by Paulo Thiefenthaler (best short film at the Rio Film Festival that year); editing and researching the music video "Danger Zone" by Marcelo D2 and Aloe Black, directed by Gandja Monteiro (2014); directing and editing the videos "Rever" and "É o que é" (It's what it is), in partnership with visual artist Gabriela Machado (2015); and editing the short film "Comida de Quintal" by Luísa Macedo (Belo Horizonte, 2022) – which won the best cinematography award at two festivals: Samburá and Cibo Corto. She also won awards at the UN Festival, the World Food Forum Film Festival, and the Ceres Film Food Festival in New York.
Worth highlighting is the extensive partnership with multi-artist and screenwriter Alessandra Colasanti, as assistant director and editor of the short film “A Verdadeira História da Bailarina de Vermelho” (best short film, Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro 2013), in the editing and finalization of “Sem Filtro”, short clips for TV and web from GNT (2018) and in the co-direction and editing of the video "A Verdadeira História de Alessandra Colasanti” for the homonymous play (2014).
She currently lives in Belo Horizonte, and since 2022 she has been working with artist Nydia Montenegro at Espai Ateliê.
In 2024, her first artistic endeavor resulted in "Whispers," at Espai Ateliê, Belo Horizonte. In 2025, the work was expanded into "Whispers – series 2," a solo exhibition presented at Sobrado 138, in São Paulo, curated by Marcelo Brasiliense.