Paula Granato is a new Brazilian screenwriter. Her artistic desires started taking form when she was fifteen in theater groups at school. At nineteen, she began consistently studying acting. She took part in several workshops and courses, resulting in her play TANTÈ, which she wrote, directed and performed at age twenty-four. At that time, she began focusing more on screenwriting and acting for film. She has been studying and brushing up on her abilities as an actress, screenwriter and director since then. The short CASSANDRA is her directorial debut.