The daughter of immigrants, a renowned Brazilian educator and a Fulbright scholar turned academic professor visual artist, Juliana always knew growing up in the Midwest that choosing a creative field would be both a blessing and a curse. Nurtured from a young age to believe in the transformative power of art, Juliana ended up succumbing to her fate and unable to shake the “I wanna make movies” bug - she moved across the ocean to be able to do just that.

The award-winning Brazilian-American writer worked in film and TV as a producer, assistant director, assistant camera, casting assistant and script supervisor (among many other functions because she took the motto “learning by doing” very seriously) in Chicago, New York City, Paris and São Paulo before relocating to Berlin by way of Munich where she continued to be delusional about pursuing a career in screenwriting.

Since 2015 Juliana has worked extensively in television development for the German market. She’s a graduate of the Sorbonne in Paris, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, and has an MA in Serial Storytelling from the ifs in Cologne (why yes, she speaks all those languages if you’re wondering). She’s a recipient of the prestigious VGF grant from the Bavaria Film Studios and an alumnus of the Racconti Script Lab two years in a row.

Juliana is currently developing a feature film for Amazon Studios with Wiedemann & Berg (The Lives of Others), staffed on Season 2 of the hit Amazon Prime show Maxton Hall: the world between us, developing a rom com feature for Prime Video with KJ Entertainment and Studio Hamburg, and working on a limited series with prolific German director Christine Hartmann (Charité, Tatort).

Juliana lives in Berlin with her two children, husband and furry companion. But she does miss her Latinx community back in the USA and hopes to join them again someday.