Léa is a French-Brazilian filmmaker based in Scotland whose work explores mental health, healing, and social justice. Since 2012, she has led ambitious creative projects across the UK, Brazil, Turkey, Europe, and South Korea.
While studying at la Sorbonne, she started directing political documentaries in order to film stories that inspired her. After completing her Master’s at Edinburgh College of Art, she co-directed the animated documentary I Don’t Want to Call It Home through the Bridging the Gap scheme, which premiered at the EIFF. Her first BBC documentary Spit It Out on sexual trauma and healing through creativity led her to co-found the community organisation of the same name.
Léa’s recent work as a director includes the award-winning documentaries What It Means to Be, on trans* activism, and À la Folie, about the lack of support for carers in France. In 2022, she received the EVOC Young-CEOs bursary and was named one of YWS’s “30 Women Before 30.”
Last year, she joined the Moleskine’s Creativity Pioneers Leadership Programme and produced the BAFTA-nominated short documentary Friends on the Outside by Annabel Moodie, exploring foraging in prison.
She is currently producing a range of projects as part of her collective Unlabelled Films.