Interviews conducted by journalist Adriana Couto with pairs of guest artists and thinkers, some of whom have shows featured at MIRADA. The conversations address each one’s story and thought, showing the perspective of their work and connecting it with the festival’s pillars: Forest, Dream, and Hope.

Sep. 7 – Daniel Veiga and Faby Hernández (Yo Soy el Monstruo que os Habla [Can the Monster Speak?])

Daniel Veiga is a scriptwriter, playwright, and actor. He has taken part in writers’ rooms at the Multishow TV network and the streaming service Paramount+, and in laboratories including Colab Netflix and Sesc Argumenta. He is a scriptwriting professor at Academia Internacional de Cinema (AIC), a playwriting professor at SP Escola de Teatro, and an advisor at the Playwriting Center of Escola Livre de Teatro (Santo André). He is also the coordinator of several fictional narrative courses focused on matters of representation. As an actor, he has won the Kikito Award for Best Actor from the Gramado Film Festival. He is a cofounder of CATS—Coletivo de Artistas Transmasculines.

Faby Hernández is a trans woman and activist. She has a degree in journalism and communications from the University of Sonora (México) and, since 2008, she has been dedicated to prevention work and human rights promotion specifically targeting the LGBTQIAP+ community. She has been living in Spain for six years, expressing the voice of migrant trans women and rendering them visible, collaborating with different collectives and NGOs. She is an awareness technician at Fundación La Merced Migraciones and has taken part in independent publications, documentaries, films, and short films.  

Adriana Couto is a journalist. She has been the host for TV Cultura’s Metrópolis—one of Brazil’s most traditional art and culture TV shows—for more than ten years. Also at TV Cultura, she has been a news anchor for Jornal da Cultura. She was a TV presenter and reporter for Canal Futura RJ and further developed her research in education and public journalism. At TV Globo, she has worked as a reporter for the music show FAMA and for RJTV. In 2016, 2018, and 2021, she received the Comunique-se Award as Best Cultural/Spoken Media Journalist. She also presents the show Mais Preta on Radio Nova Brasil FM.