Priscilla Brasil (Belém, Pará, 1978) is a filmmaker, producer, and PhD candidate in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, where she researches imperialism, eugenics, and development. A solo mother of two autistic children, Priscilla balances motherhood with a career devoted to research, cultural production, and Amazonian cinema.

 She is founder of Companhia Amazônica de Filmes, a 25-year-old film and music production company headquartered in Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon. She is also founder of Clandestina, a Portuguese production company dedicated to films not only about immigration but told BY immigrants. Priscilla considers those narratives profoundly European, yet consistently pushed to the margins instead of holding the centrality society needs today.

 Priscilla was executive producer of Gaby Amarantos' iconic album "Treme" and creator and organizer of the singer's entire visual output during the first phase of her career, helping carry tecnobrega out of Belém's peripheries and onto the world stage. As the album swept Brazil's top honors — four VMBs, the APCA and Bravo! awards, and dozens more — Priscilla directed iconic works including the music video "Xirley" and the musical "Gaby – Live in Jurunas." She remained in the music industry until 2018, when she returned definitively to filmmaking.

 She founded and coordinates the Escola Livre de Cinema da Amazônia, which brings free, decentralized audiovisual education to university and secondary students across cities in the Amazon, broadening their view of the audiovisual market and preparing their entry into it, while also training working professionals in legislation, rights, and the bureaucracy of FSA/ANCINE film funding calls.

 As a director, screenwriter, and producer, her films include "As Filhas de Chiquita" (2007), "Paysandu – 100 Years of Passion" (2015), "Into the Void of Air" (2022), and "No More History Without Us" (2024). She is currently in post-production with "The Immigrant Mall" and "Valentina," in production with "Crime Scene" (Local de Crime), in pre-production with "Rainha das Rainhas," and developing a series of films on the occupation of the Amazon throughout the 20th century.

 She is regularly invited to lecture and lead masterclasses on cinema and the environment — particularly the Amazon — at leading universities worldwide, including Cambridge, King's College London, the University of Tübingen, the Sorbonne, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Universidade Católica do Porto, among many others, bridging academia and filmmaking. She has also been invited by the United Nations to speak at several COP climate conferences on cinema, the Amazon, and conservation.