Lilih Curi is a Brazilian director, writer and producer. She graduated in Communication, with a Master's Degree in Performing Arts, and studied Performing Direction in the EICTV, Cuba. In 2013, she founded the film company Segredo Filmes and made the short films CARMEN (2013), TERESA (2014), CAROLINA (2017) and DYSTOPIA (2020). This last one's script was selected for a consultancy with Aleksei Abib, Gabriel Martins and Marina Meliande, at PANLAB 2016, an event from Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema Festival. 

DYSTOPIA is Lilih Curi’s first drama. Her previous films were made in hybrid formats, mixing fiction and documentary.
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The idea for ‘Dystopia’’s script came when Lilih Curi was studying at EICTV. During an artistic exercise with two Cuban actores, she realized a tension between them. “I felt something disturbing between the actors, the first spark of violence was there, in that inexistent relationship between them”. On the other hand, she realized that the only person who could get them in contact was the female character, the actress. “As I was developing the scene, I was writing the script, and as I wrote I understood what kind of conflict to have in it, and this conflict would be drawn in the script as a crime between the characters”. Lilih explains that the script was creating new layers from the family violence, undercovered by institutional violence. “Brazil doesn't come out as violent as it is. Dystopia wants to take off this mask of a friendly Brazil”. 

As a filmmaker, Lilih Curi believes that cinema is a “Picture of people's culture and identity. Cinema touches the soul”, says her.  As a woman filmmaker, she analyzes that there is a long way to go in search for gender equality in the movie business. “We, women, are silenced. Our opinions are not taken seriously”
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Lilih Curi was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and spent a time in São Paulo and Minas Gerais. Nowadays, she lives in Salvador, Bahia.


More information:
‍ www.lilihcuri.com
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