Cássio Kelm (he/him) is an internationally acclaimed director, producer, and screenwriter whose work has been featured in over 80 festivals worldwide. A transmasculine filmmaker, he has directed 15 short films including Soy, which won the Special Jury Prize at IDFA, and Perto de Você, which was selected for IDFA and Olhar de Cinema. Cássio’s first feature documentary, Mães do Derick, showcased at the Torino Film Festival. He studied Fiction Direction at EICTV in Cuba.