ThaĂs de Almeida Prado
Biography
Thais de Almeida Prado is a filmmaker, scriptwriter, multidisciplinary artist and actress. Thais' work permeates the interdisciplinary boundaries between cinema, and other arts, often in collaboration with other artists.  Thais is one of the Talents of Projeto Paradiso, participated at TFL Next Comedy (Torino, Italy); Panorama Lab (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Doc.Lisboa ArchĂ© Lab (Lisbon, Portugal), Serie Lab (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Talents BA (Buenos Aires, Argentine). ThaĂs received the "Special ArchĂ© Jury Award, for the best project in writing and development stage" to "The Brazilwood Women", a film project that explores the desire on canvas. As part of "As Mulheres do Pau-Brasil’s" research Thais directed the short-films “Empire” and “My Part”.
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After theirs father's death, Carl and Ana decide to go to Germany to rescue his unknown story. There, not only will they discover familiar tracks, they will confront and recognize themselves, to move forward in their lives.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The film is a poetic testimony of these women's relationship with their city: being foreigners, discovering their roots, trying to create art, experiencing urban violence, dealing with space, architecture and movement.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Jojo
Joana, a non-binary person with a vagina, meets Xtopher, an effeminate gay man, in the FKK area of a Berlin lake. Then, they decide to go to the cruising area together, where they experience new sensations.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Flávio loses his sexual appetite editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that determines when humans will colonize Mars. Flávio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flávio's lust back. Meanwhile, Hypnos, god of sleep and youtuber, tries to give people back the art of rest.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as Miriam
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Widow
Marcelo, a 40-year-old dandy, has a memory like no other. Monologuing between coffee and gay hookups, he holds court on a wide range of topics: his status, his Catholic grandmother, and his unusual sexual fantasies. At times, he takes himself for Genghis Khan or poet-philosopher Novalis.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
T H R E E S O M E is a collaborative film performance developed during the confinement between John Herman (Cologne, Germany), ThaĂs Almeida Prado aka Filmes de Infiltração (SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil) and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi aka crazinisT artisT (Kumasi, Ghana).
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Thais, Nathalia, Julia and Tetembua decide to open “The Brazilwood Store”, a men’s escort company as a solution to womxn's desires in search of casual sex.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Ana Brasil
A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda ĂŤcone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and LĂrio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as ThaĂs
New York City attracts Jane and Carlos, like so many others, with the promise of a better life. That's why they've left their home country, Brazil. Yet as immigrants, they don't have all the opportunities that the American dream implies. Their search for a new and better life represents that of all the immigrants who dare to attempt a fresh start in another country. It is also the story of changes taking place in United States and Brazil. The fictional story about Jane and Carlos in this experimental film is intertwined with the personal experiences of the film team, which reports in interspersed episodes about their own immigration and that of others they've researched.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as PatrĂcia GalvĂŁo (Pagu)
Essay on Eva Nil, the first star of Brazilian cinema.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Fish 1
From a simple question, we travel through futuristic imaginaries. a game, an experiment. Cats, children, extemporaneous beings all in correlation in this short film directed by Thais de Almeida Prado and Fernanda Sanchez Valdivieso. Cactus: generally succulent and edible. large flowers, nocturnal flowering, pollinated by insects, moths, bats. wide anatomical adaptation. dry and hot environments. deserts. semi-arid, caatingas, cerrados. dimorphic branches, reduced leaves, photosynthetic. certain species develop ephemeral leaves, which last for a short period of time while a new bud is still in its early stages of development. psychoactive agents. ruins of civilization.