Vicente Amorim
director/producer/writer
Vicente Amorim has directed ten TV series and ten feature films, working with actors including Wagner Moura, Viggo Mortensen, Giancarlo Giannini, Harvey Keitel and Vincent Cassel across thrillers, action, dark comedies, biopics and character-driven dramas.
Described by Variety as a “rising star,” Amorim was the creator, showrunner, and lead director of Senna — Netflix’s biggest and most ambitious series ever in Latin America and the streamer's #1 non-English show when it aired. It was nominated for Best International Series at the Critics Choice Awards, won Best Series at the APCA, and earned the Platino Award for Best Series Creator. Senna came on the heels of Santo (Netflix Spain), the country's largest TV production of 2022.
Amorim is currently in Spain where he is about to start production of The Pilgrimage, a road movie with fantastical elements based on Paulo Coelho's bestselling novel, also for Netflix.
In the past two years he directed two episodes of Netflix's Man on Fire and served as executive producer and lead director of Netflix's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The World Jones Made.
On the feature side, his Yakuza Princess hit #1 on Netflix LatAm and #5 globally among English-language films. Motorrad — a motorcycle slasher with a cult following — was the only Brazilian film in the official selection at TIFF 2017. Other features include Good (with Viggo Mortensen), an ethical thriller set in pre-war Germany, and The Middle of the World (with Wagner Moura). His films have screened at Toronto, San Sebastián, Berlin, Rotterdam, MoMA/New York, and beyond.
Amorim's crime thriller The Division became a major hit on Globoplay and earned nominations for Best Series, Director, and Actor from Brazil's Critics' association — with its feature version receiving eight Brazilian Academy nominations, including Best Film and Best Director, part of Amorim's 25+ Brazilian Academy noms overall.
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.
