Carolina Markowicz is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter,[1] whose debut feature film Charcoal (Carvão) premiered in 2022.[2]
Based in São Paulo, she directed a number of short films in her early career, most notably winning the Queer Palm at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for The Orphan (O Órfão).[3] She was subsequently a co-creator of the television series Nobody's Looking (Ninguém Tá Olhando).[4]
Charcoal premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[5]
Her second film, Toll (Pedágio), was screened in the Centrepiece program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival,[6][7] where Markowicz was named as the recipient of the Emerging Talent Award.[8]