Catarina De Cèzanne

Screenwriter & Production Coordinator at SouthWest Productions
Director, Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Voice Actor, Assistant Director and Script Supervisor

Lisbon, Portugal

Member Since:
July 2015

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About Catarina

Catarina César (often called Catarina De Cèzanne) is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter, born in a very small village in the South of Portugal. She speaks 3 languages and holds a master degree in Film/TV production. She has been travelling around the world alone and lived in three different countries for years while looking for a place to belong. Today she is still looking for that place. A place to call home.

She aims to inspire others with her words, especially those who come from geographically disadvantaged countries and small villages, or whose English is not their first language. She plans to raise awareness against modern slavery, nepotism and discrimination towards immigrants.

She writes female-centred period dramas, sci-fi, horror, mystery and witchcraft stories. She started her career as a production assistant and script supervisor for the Spanish series Serramoura and has travelled the world after that, from gig to gig, shorts and international film festivals. She lived and worked in 3 different countries gathering stories, visual inspiration and unique points of view, which also provided her with a wide-skillset from script to screen, production and post-production knowledge.
Her idyllic lifestyle would be to work full-time with other artists, develop and produce film and series, in a Hub that would connect both new/emerging and old-experience voices together, to bound art with business and turn our little world into an endless source of ideas and epiphanies... no matter where.

Experienced in the fields of Development, Production and Post-production. Writing screenplays, Pitch decks and TV bibles across the genres of mystery/suspense, sci-fi, drama, and romance.

Unique traits: Trilingual Portuguese/Spanish/English

Gender:
Female

Body type:
Average

Hair:
Medium

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Green

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

Certifications

Photos

Videos

Loglines

Knitting Out Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror ⋄ Drama When being rejected after losing her virginity, a socially awkward but talented weaver descends into obsession and becomes famous by knitting parts of her ex-boyfriends in her tapestries.(updated January 23, 2023)
The Promotion Budget: $0 - $100K | Mystery ⋄ Thriller That night, the richest man in the world left us all locked in the office with only one single rule: The last one standing would earn his big promotion. What would you do? How far would you go to win it?
Maze of illusions Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller ⋄ Drama A schizophrenic student is trapped between reality and illusion that threatens his world and everyone around him.
Darkest Kelly Budget: $30M+ | Mystery ⋄ Historical ⋄ Crime ⋄ Drama In 1761, Dorcas Kelly was executed for being a witch, brothel keeper and the first Irish serial killer. This is her story.
The Maries (As Marias) Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent ⋄ Sci-fi Portugal, 90’s. After a mysterious explosion in a small town, where nothing ever happens, four teenage girls question life while unravelling a series of paranormal events, which results in the disappearance of one of them. PS: The photography on the poster is not mine.
Linked Budget: $0 - $100K | Mystery ⋄ Sci-fi While travelling to the most unknown places around the world, Martha witnesses inexplicable phenomenons that lead to the disappearance of her partner, David.
The Beckoning Budget: $0 - $100K | Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller ⋄ Horror On a strange night, a philosophy student gets her logic defied during an obscure bus trip when she, and the other four passengers, get stuck in an endless night.
Unnaturals Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Sci-fi What if all the world catastrophes begin in one’s mind?
Wetiko Budget: $0 - $100K | Independent ⋄ Drama A road-movie short-film about Corona Virus following the life of three young adults who run away from their past.

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Credits

Café Mirage (2020)
Film by Neilson Black Costume and Wardrobe Department A British foreigner moves to Paris to work in a cafe and become a Parisian. But realizes he isn't welcome when he gets there. So he starts a support group to fight for his right to stay and save the cafe from closing.
A Tree Fell Today (2019)
Film (short) (Drama) Script and Continuity Department Elise revisits the traumatic memories of her lover Jessica committing suicide due to the catastrophic death of their child, struggling to escape the eternal circle of anguish and misery she tries to move forward but she is stuck in an endless loop.
Damaged but Interesting (2019)
Film by Dan Emmons (Comedy and Drama) Script and Continuity Department Art Jensen, struggling writer, is having an existential crisis and it's only Monday; he doesn't know if he is Dickens or a dickhead. He wants his play produced in the West End but he can't get a break so he spends his days on the sofa watching daytime TV and taking mood elevators. His agent, Dickie Diamond, calls wanting news on a new project while Art wants to know if his previous work has sold. Sally, his long-suffering girlfriend, turns up asking him awkward questions he's not in the right frame of mind to answer.
Martha (2019)
Film (short) by Christopher Hayden Runner A young girl suddenly lives the inexplicable phenomena of being alone in a town where everybody mysteriously vanished.
Serramoura (2017 - 2018)
TV Series by Voz Audiovisual (Crime and Drama) Production Assistant
A Place in the Sun 2018 & 2019 (2018)
TV Series Producer
Síndrome de Cinema (2013)
Film Producer
Darkest Kelly
TV Serie Writer
According to Scott
TV Movi Writer
BiBee
Writer
Deadlinked
TV Serie Writer
Mantis
Producer
Amoreiras
Shor Additional Crew

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Awards

Winner 3rd Place - NYisa (New York Int' Screenplay Awards)
(2022)
Winner Best Micro Short Script - Berlin Flash Film Festival
(2021)
Honorable Mention - Wiki: The world's fastest screenplay contest!
(2021)
Official Selection - Los Angeles International Horror Film Festival (LAIHFF)
(2021)
Winner Best Short Screenplay - A Night of Horror (ANOH)
(2021)
Nominee - AFIN Film Festival
(2021)
Old Nick's Pitching Forum Nominee - Dark Arts Film Festival (DAFF)
(2021)