MICHEL COELI

Michel Coeli is a filmmaker and photographer, who graduated in cinema from Escola de Cinema Darcy Ribeiro, he was the creator and director of the notable series "Que Mundo É Esse?", which aired in Brazil on GloboNews and GloboPlay.

Additionally, he was the editor and director of the series "Não Conta Lá em Casa" on Multishow, and contributed to various players such as National Geographic, VICE, HBO, The Times, and TV Globo.

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Coeli has traveled to over 50 countries, documenting significant moments such as the Iraq War against ISIS, the Syrian Civil War, the refugee crisis, and environmental issues like ivory hunting in Kenya and whaling in the Faroe Islands.

He has also captured locations such as Ukraine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel-Palestine, portraying the complex and distressing essence of the contemporary world.

In 2013, he made the short film "No Olho Do Furacão", during the demonstrations that took over Brazil. The short accumulated millions of views on internet, being highlighted in internationally renowned media outlets, such as the Washington Post, Huffington Post and CNN. The short was selected to participate in festivals and was the opening film of the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva. One of his photos of the demonstrations was the subject of an Amnesty International campaign in 2014.

In 2015, he recorded the daily lives of Kurds in Iraq. These photos were the subject of an exhibition open to the public at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, seen by more than 150,000 people.
During the refugee crisis in 2016, he registered refugees from the Island of Lesbos in Greece, crossing several countries to Munich. This work resulted in the tv-documentary “Que Mundo É Esse? The refugee crisis.” shown on national television in Brazil.

 

In 2024, he premiered his first feature film, Sinfonia da Sobrevivência (Symphony of Survival), which explores the devastating consequences of drought and fire in the Pantanal biome.

 

The film won both the audience and jury awards for best documentary at one of Brazil’s most prestigious film festivals, the São Paulo International Film Festival.