Diego Migliorini is a film director and screenwriter from São Paulo, Brazil, living in Edinburgh, UK. His projects focus on social issues and LGBTQIA+. Bachelor in filmmaking (FAAP-SP, 2019) with full scholarship, he has taken part in feature films, series, video clips and advertising since 2014. Through crowdfunding campaigns, he wrote, directed and produced the short-film "Don't Call Me That" (2019), presented at over 30 film festivals worldwide, including Gramado Film Festival and Brussels Short Film Festival. His third short film, "Feira da Ladra," funded by the São Paulo Secretary of Culture, premiered in June 2023 at Festin in Lisbon and Kinofórum in São Paulo. It has since been shown at 15 other festivals and commercially in Brasília. In 2023, he was awarded another scholarship to join the Kino Eyes Master's program, specializing in directing, with studies in Lisbon (Lusófona University), Tallinn (Baltic Film and Media), Dublin (IADT), and Edinburgh (Napier University). During the program, he directed the short documentary "Hole" (2024), awarded Best International Short at DIGO Festival (Goiás) and screened at six others; the fiction drama "Those Who Stay" (2024), unreleased; and the queer sci-fi "They Bend Stars" (2025), in post-production.

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