Discipline: WRITERS

Luana Aquino

Luana Aquino

LUANA AQUINO IS A SOCIAL COMMUNICATOR, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEUR AND JOURNALIST. BY WORKING IN; IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS, SPORTS JOURNALISM, WEB JOURNALISM, TV, MARKETING, BRANDING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS, SHE ESTABLISHES BRAND CONNECTIONS THROUGH 360 ° STRATEGIES.

CURIOUS BY NATURE, SHE STUDIED THE COMMUNICATION OF SYSTEM 1 (EMOTION) VS. SYSTEM 2 (REASON).

WHILE IN COLLEGE, SHE INTERVIEWED THE WRITER, JOSÉ MINDLIN, ON “PODCAST VOID”, WHICH WAS THE FIRST IN LATIN AMERICA. IN ADDITION TO CONTRIBUTING TO THE BOOK “TELECOMUNICAÇÕES”, BY JOURNALIST LIA RIBEIRO DIAS. SHE WAS CURATOR OF THE MAGAZINE “AREDE”, A SOCIAL INCLUSION MAGAZINE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY. SHE WAS MEDIA STRATEGIST AT REDE RECORD NEWS AND EDITOR OF INTERNATIONAL AND SPORTS CONTENT.

AT EVOKE EYEWEAR BRANDING, LUANA CREATED BRAND ALLIANCES WITH ARTISTS AND LEADERS IN CULTURAL IDEOLOGIES, BOTH MAINSTREAM AND UNDERGROUND.

HOUSE OF JAM
EVOKE WALL
EVOKE TIMES BLOG

IN PARALLEL, SHE CREATED THE SOCIAL  PROJECT “LUMINAEU”, IN WHICH SHE GIVES LIFE AND NEW MEANING TO DISCARDED GLASS BOTTLES, COLLECTED IN HER WANDERINGS OF THE STREETS OF SÃO PAULO, CREATING LAMPS AND OFFERING THEM AS GIFTS TO COMMUNITIES, BRINGING BEAUTY AND LOVE TO PEOPLE’S DAILY LIVES.

SHE IS CURRENTLY EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE PORTUGUESE NEWSPAPER “DESTAK” AND IS IN THE PRE-PRODUCTION PHASE OF HER FEATURE FILM “HELENICE DE TAL”, WHICH TELLS THE RELATIONSHIP OF HOUSEKEEPER ELENICE, A 60-YEAR-OLD BLACK WOMAN AND A CHILD LEFT BY HER MOTHER, WITH THE PROMISE OF RETURNING. ALONG WITH A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS: “THE ADVENTURES OF NINA AND FRIENDS”.

David Winterberg

David Winterberg

DAVID WINTERBERG WAS BORN 1987 IN SCHWETZINGEN, GERMANY. AT THE AGE OF 15 YRS, WHILE STILL AT SCHOOL, DUE TO HIS PASSION FOR WRITING, HE WORKED AS A FREELANCE JOURNALIST FOCUSING ON MUSIC, FASHION, ART AND FILM. IN 2010 HE ENROLLED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA TO STUDY THEATRE, FILM AND MEDIA. HE SOON BEGAN TO WRITE HIS FIRST SCRIPTS AND PLAYS, WHICH LED TO HIS ACCLAIMED 2013 THEATRE PROJECT “THE ANGEL & THE SPARROW“. THE PLAY PREMIERED AT THE BURGTHEATER WIEN, THE MOST IMPORTANT GERMAN LANGUAGE THEATER AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THEATERS IN THE WORLD.

TODAY HE LIVES IN BERLIN, WORKING AS A THEATER AUTHOR, SCREENWRITER AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER.

HIS PLAYS HAVE BEEN STAGED AT OVER 20+ THEATERS, INCLUDING PRODUCTIONS IN VIENNA (BURGTHEATER), BERLIN (RENAISSANCE THEATER), ZURICH (MAAG HALLE), MONTREAL (SEGAL CENTRE), TORONTO (MIRVISH THEATRE) AND OTHERS.

THE ANGEL & THE SPARROW​ (2013)
CONCEPT, CO-AUTHOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF MARLENE DIETRICH AND EDITH PIAF, TWO INDOMITABLE WOMEN OF INCOMPARABLE TALENT. THIS MUSICAL DRAMA, IS AN INTIMATE AND ENTERTAINING PORTRAIT OF A FASCINATING FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN SHOW BUSINESS LEGENDS THAT BEGAN UNDER THE MOST UNLIKELY OF CIRCUMSTANCES AND LASTED THEIR ENTIRE LIVES.

FEATURING 20 OF THEIR UNFORGETTABLE HITS INCLUDING “LA VIE EN ROSE”, “MILORD”, AND “WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE”.

 

WIEN – BURGTHEATER

ZURICH – MAAG HALLE

BERLIN – RENAISSANCE THEATER

TORONTO – MIRVISH THEATER

MONTREAL – SEGAL CENTER

 

TCHAIKOVSKY (2015)
AUTHOR

BASED ON RECENTLY REDISCOVERED LETTERS, THIS PLAY REVEALS THE LIFE STORY OF PETER ILYITSCH TCHAIKOVSKY. THE SUNKEN URBAN BACKGROUNDS OF ST. PETERSBURG AND MOSCOW, IMPERIAL BERLIN AND OTHER CULTURAL CENTRES OF MUSIC THAT ARE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE AGAIN. “TCHAIKOVSKY“ DEALS WITH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EROS, POLITICS AND ART AND GIVES AN UNCENSORED LOOK ON THE ARTIST’S HOMOSEXUALITY AND HIS DRAMATIC STRUGGLE WITH IT.