Vicente Amorim
director/producer/writer

Vicente Amorim has directed ten television series and ten feature films, working with Wagner Moura, Viggo Mortensen, Giancarlo Giannini, Harvey Keitel, and Vincent Cassel across thrillers, action, dark comedies, biopics, and character-driven dramas.

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Called a "rising star" by Variety, he was creator, showrunner, and lead director of Senna, Netflix's most ambitious Latin American series and, on release, the streamer's #1 non-English show worldwide. It was nominated for Best International Series at the Critics Choice Awards, won Best Series at the APCA, and earned him the Platino Award for Best Series Creator. Before that he directed Santo for Netflix Spain, the country's largest television production of 2022.

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He recently wrapped The Pilgrimage, a Netflix adaptation of Paulo Coelho's bestselling novel. He also directed two episodes of Man on Fire, which reached #1 worldwide on Netflix during its run, and was executive producer and lead director on Netflix's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The World Jones Made (in post-production).

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His features include Yakuza Princess, which on release reached #1 on Netflix LatAm and #5 globally among English-language titles, Motorrad, the only Brazilian film in official selection at TIFF 2017, Good, with Viggo Mortensen, and The Middle of the World, with Wagner Moura. His work has screened at Toronto, San Sebastián, Berlin, Rotterdam, and MoMA. The feature version of his crime thriller The Division received eight Brazilian Academy nominations.

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The son of a diplomat, Amorim was educated in the US, England, Brazil, and the Netherlands, and speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Anne Pinheiro Guimarães, and their two daughters.