Gabriel Salazar
Biography
Gabriel Salazar is a Brazilian actor, director, writer, producer and composer born in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. A graduate in Performing Arts (UFSC), Gabriel began his acting career in 2013. On television, he held a recurring role in the HBO/O2 Filmes series "Pico da Neblina" ("Joint Venture" - 2019-2022), directed by Academy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles and Quico Meirelles. In film, he earned a Best Actor nomination at the 2017 Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival (LABRFF) for his performance in the feature film "180 Graus" ("180 Degrees"). The movie, directed by Phil Rocha, was originally developed as a web series (2016-2018) featuring Gabriel in the lead cast. As a filmmaker, Gabriel transitioned into directing with the short documentary "Sonata Julieta" (2022). He subsequently wrote and directed a series of experimental documentaries, including "Devaneio" (2023), "Duração-Diferença" (2023), "PULSO" (2024), and his latest project, "Uprising Smoke" (2026)." He is currently working on the post-production of the feature-length documentary "Assim Disse Zoroastro" and the experimental short film "A Palavra".
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Buiú
Set in a fictional modern-day Sao Paulo, where marijuana has been legalized, this series follows 29-year-old Biriba, a drug dealer who decides to give up his criminal life and enter the legal drug sales industry. Unfortunately for Biriba, going straight is more difficult than he could have imagined.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Ten filmmakers were tasked with making surreal short film segments that loosely involve a cigarette. The result is Lynchian chaos in anthology form - the good ends, the bad ends, the loose ends, and the burnt ends. A sprawling anthology about all things cigarettes.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Reverie. Daydream. Fantasize. Digress. The static look in absence, the look that is lost trying to be present. Everyday scenes, desires, feelings and impulses present and re-present; and how this affects the body.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A film director. A protest against the 6x1 work schedule. And there is always this guiding, meditative voice that controls the impulse to revolt, that isolates, atomizes the being. In this confusion, it's necessary to choose a side - or at least be aware of the side chosen. There is no not choosing.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Fernando Picolé
A short student film.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Matheus
Matheus is a student who recently lost his parents in a plane crash and his boyfriend in a car accident. Alone and vulnerable he is teleported by an Alien who seeks to steal the humans identities while pretends to be his dead boyfriend.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Arthur
Six teenagers go through life changing events while they try to keep a very strong friendship with each other.