Jasmin Tenucci
Jasmin Tenucci is a writer and director based in São Paulo, Brazil. Her directing work includes short film August Sky, which won the Special Mention of the Jury at the Cannes 2021 Official Selection, as well as four episodes of the Brazilian television series Shop Tudo (Glaze Entretenimento/Fall 2023). Tenucci’s screenwriting work includes co-developing and writing on Globo’s acclaimed series As FiveE (2020), and a soon-to-be-announced Netflix series that will premiere in June 2022. She is also adapting the novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet for Oscar-nominated director Bing Liu, and the Brazilian novel The Pediatrician for Anonymous Content Brazil. Tenucci also served as editor on Joyland, which won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes in 2022 and Best International Film at the Spirit Awards in 2023. Tenucci holds a BA in Film from São Paulo University and an MFA in Writing and Directing from Columbia University Film School, where she also taught directing. She is currently in development on two feature films that she will direct: Purple Cotton and The Smallest Whale in the World, which won the 2017 Columbia Alfred P. Sloan Development Grant.