He holds a Master's degree in Screenwriting, with a full scholarship, from the KinoEyes program, which takes place in Portugal, Scotland, and Estonia. He is a co-writer of the Latvian horror feature film "Upurga" (2022), of the upcoming Brazilian comedy feature film "The Faithful Ones" (2025), and the writer of the Estonian-Palestinian short film "Roof Knocking", which won the Cairo Film Festival Best Short Film award in 2018. He has written and directed short films selected for more than 100 international festivals. Among them are "Maputo," which won 4 awards at the Gramado Film Festival, including the Kikito for Best Direction, and "The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Kuliakov," filmed in Estonia, which went in festivals such as the Black Nights Film Festival and Fantaspoa. Lucas teaches screenwriting at the International Academy of Cinema (AIC - SP) and at the postgraduate screenwriting course at SENAC - SP. Other than that, Lucas was placed third in the FRAPA 2018 screenplay competition - the biggest screenplay award in Latin America -, won the Anonymous Content Brazil 2023 Award, and was selected for the workshops of the Museum of Image and Sound Experimental Film Center 2020 (SP), Berlinale Talents – Buenos Aires 2017, POWR Baltic Exchange 2018, Willapa Bay AiR 2019, and FAM 2024. Lucas lives and work in São Paulo, Brazil.

Residency project:

“The Factory Beyond the Hill” is a project that emerged in 2024, born out of our desire to explore the fantastic realism in the works of the Brazilian writer Jose J. Veiga through animation.