Carolina Markowicz

Carolina Markowicz is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter, whose debut feature film Charcoal (Carvão) premiered in 2022.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). She was subsequently a co-creator of the television series Nobody's Looking (Ninguém Tá Olhando).Charcoal premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.Her second film, Toll (Pedágio), was screened in the Centrepiece program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, where Markowicz was named as the recipient of the Emerging Talent Award.