Leo Garcia is a partner at Coelho Voador. With a Master’s Degree in Fiction Screenwriting for TV and Cinema (UPSA – Salamanca, Spain), he has written feature films, short films and series, received state funding a number of times, and won several awards. Of note is the short film “Ed”, which he wrote and produced, and was selected for more than 100 festivals in 33 countries. He also wrote for such series as “Elvis and the Comet” (2010 – TV Brasil), “Sapore D’Italia” (2011 – RBSTV and Globo Internacional), “Old Glories” (2014 – TVE and Prime Box Brazil) and “Werner and the Dead” (2017 – Canal Brasil).

The fiction feature film “Back to ’97”, which he wrote and produced, is set to premiere in the second half of 2017. Two of Leo’s feature film projects received funding from the RS Pólo Audiovisual: the fiction feature “After the Ash” which he wrote; and the documentary “The Extraordinary Life of Tarso de Castro”, which he produced, wrote and directed alongside Zeca Brito. He also wrote the feature film “Legality”, which will enter production in the first half of 2017.

Leo won the Santander Cultural Award for feature film projects twice (in 2009 and in 2011) and was selected for the Berlin Film Festival’s prestigious Berlinale Talents 2014 program.

Leo has lectured in screenwriting courses and workshops in Porto Alegre, Goiânia, Rio de Janeiro, Aracaju, and several cities in inner Rio Grande do Sul. He is also the mind behind Coelho Voador’s Tailor Shop, a lab that develops new screenplays.

Leo is the founder and general manager of FRAPA, the Porto Alegre Screenwriting Festival, which is the most important screenwriting festival in Latin America, heading into its fifth edition as of 2017.