David França Mendes was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lived in Cologne, Germany, since 2020. Since then he has worked with Brazilian and European productions.

Films: He recently wrote the feature film "In Corman's Territory?" (documentary), for Bro, and the children's animated film "O Casalinho do Diabo", for Take it Easy, both Portuguese production companies. Among other works, he wrote the feature films "Dirty Hearts" (literary adaptation, drama, suspense) and "The middle of the world" (drama based on real events), both directed by Vicente Amorim. David wrote and directed the feature films "Um Romance de Geração", adapted from the book of the same name by Sérgio Sant'Anna (comedy), and "2000 Nordestes" (documentary), co-directed with Vicente Amorim and produced by LC Barreto . He also wrote the feature film "A Garota da Moto" (action), based on the series he created, and co-wrote, with Ângela Fabri, "Uma Aventura Perfekta" (children), a spin-off of the series "Escola de Gênios" to be released in 2024, both films produced by Mixer.

Series: França Mendes has "created by" credit in three original series. He was co-creator and head-writer of "A Garota da Moto" (adventure) for Fox and SBT, creator and head writer of "Quase anônimos" (comedy) for Multishow and co-creator, with Rodrigo Ferrari, and head -writer of "Nós" (drama), for Canal Brasil/Globoplay. David was supervising writer for the six seasons of the family series "Escola de Gênios", for Gloob/Globoplay, in addition to having worked as head writer at Mixer for five years, during which he created, supervised and developed several projects. David was also one of the writers in the second season of "Copa Hotel" (drama), created by Giuliano Cedrini and Tatiana Roza for GNT, at Pródigo. In 2022, David was part of the development team for the series "Desassossego" (fiction, drama), an international co-production between Take it Easy (Portugal) and Iris (Luxembourg) with the participation of RTP (Portugal).

Awards: Winner of the ABL Special Cinema Award and of the Grande Cinema Brasil Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with the feature film "Dirty Hearts", and awards and nominations in other Brazilian and international events, including the NHK-Sundance Latin America with " The middle of the world" His series "A Garota da Moto", in addition to impressive audience ratings that kept SBT as second most viewed channel during its whole two seasons, was a finalist for all Brazilian television awards in its first season, including the important APCA award."

Other works: França Mendes is the author of the collection of short stories "O Herói Insone", and in 2019 he debuted as a theater author with the play "Amor é Química".

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