Eduardo Monteiro is a writer-director whose work is shaped by more than three decades spent creating stories across advertising, film production, radio, digital media and entrepreneurship.
Long before social media existed, he created one of Brazil’s earliest online dating platforms. Over the years, he developed award-winning campaigns, directed audiovisual productions, launched creative ventures, and built a career driven by curiosity, reinvention, and a fascination with human behavior.
A lifelong cinephile, he spent those years studying films the way a craftsman studies a discipline. Not simply watching them, but trying to understand why certain stories stay with us, why some moments change us, and why a single gesture can transform the meaning of everything that came before.
His screenplays draw from a life marked by unexpected turns, hard-earned lessons, and a constant search for what lies beneath the surface of ordinary experience.
Today, he writes and directs original feature films about people confronting the moments that change how they see themselves, each other, and the world around them.
Eduardo Monteiro is a writer-director whose work is shaped by more than three decades spent creating stories across advertising, film production, radio, digital media and entrepreneurship.
Long before social media existed, he created one of Brazil’s earliest online dating platforms. Over the years, he developed award-winning campaigns, directed audiovisual productions, launched creative ventures, and built a career driven by curiosity, reinvention, and a fascination with human behavior.
A lifelong cinephile, he spent those years studying films the way a craftsman studies a discipline. Not simply watching them, but trying to understand why certain stories stay with us, why some moments change us, and why a single gesture can transform the meaning of everything that came before.
His screenplays draw from a life marked by unexpected turns, hard-earned lessons, and a constant search for what lies beneath the surface of ordinary experience.
Today, he writes and directs original feature films about people confronting the moments that change how they see themselves, each other, and the world around them.
Eduardo Monteiro is a Brazilian writer-director and award-winning advertising creative. After years developing campaigns and television projects in Brazil, he turned his focus to original feature filmmaking.
His work is driven by a fascination with human perception, memory, and the weight of ordinary moments. And his process reflects that obsession. Every project arrives as a complete world, developed with a filmmaker's eye, from research and locations to casting references, music, and tone. Not just a screenplay. A vision, ready to be made.
Eduardo Monteiro is a Brazilian writer-director and award-winning advertising creative. After years developing campaigns and television projects in Brazil, he turned his focus to original feature filmmaking.
His work is driven by a fascination with human perception, memory, and the weight of ordinary moments. And his process reflects that obsession. Every project arrives as a complete world, developed with a filmmaker's eye, from research and locations to casting references, music, and tone. Not just a screenplay. A vision, ready to be made.
A lifetime of living and telling stories
EDUARDO MONTEIRO
Writer · Director, advertising
Available for meetings, reads and conversations.
eduardo@officesbh.com
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Eduardo Monteiro is a writer who came to cinema after more than three decades spent telling stories for everyone but himself.
Across advertising, film production, radio and digital media, he built a career bringing other people's stories and projects to life, driven throughout by curiosity and reinvention.
He now writes fiction grounded in real life, drawn to the beauty of simplicity and the complexity of human behavior.
Every project begins in deep research and grows into a complete cinematic world, accompanied by a full pitch deck covering every layer of the work.
— Screenplays —
CICADAS
Drama | Jamestown, NY, USA | 2022
In a small upstate New York town, an aging Vietnam veteran fills his days with old rock records, Italian cooking, and his beloved granddaughter while struggling to make peace with something he did more than fifty years ago.
When his best friend and only confidant dies, he is left alone with the past he has spent a lifetime avoiding, and must find a way to ask for forgiveness before it disappears with him.
SCREENPLAY COMPLETED (ENGLISH / PORTUGUESE)
Feature Screenplay • 123 pages • Final Draft • Registered with the WGA • Full creative pack available upon request
LUZ
Drama | Atacama Desert, Chile | 2021
While traveling alone through Chile's Atacama Desert to put his life back together, a closed-off Brazilian adman shares a tour van with strangers from around the world, among them a Chilean couple he slowly grows close to.
Over a few days among volcanoes and endless skies, the trip quietly cracks him open.
Only on the last night, a small, ordinary gesture reveals a truth that had been in front of him all along, one that reshapes everything he just lived.
SCREENPLAY COMPLETED (ENGLISH / PORTUGUESE / SPANISH)
Feature Screenplay • 127 pages • Final Draft • Registered with the WGA • Full creative pack available upon request
SAGAN
Drama | Ithaca, NY, USA | 1977 - 1994
As one of the most famous scientists in the world struggles with professional rejection and a private life worn down by his work, a photograph of Earth taken from the edge of the Solar System forces him to confront the one subject he never fully understood: himself.
[ Screenplay under development / July 2026 ]
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Concept imagery created during project development.