Raquel Valadares
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
- Writer
Born in Rio de Janeiro, raised in São Paulo, Raquel Valadares is an experienced story producer, assistant director and director specialized in documentaries and factual entertainment, and also the creator and director of the 2016 series À Moda da Casa (Family Recipes), of the 2014 feature film Homem-Carro (Old Man's Cars) and of the 2007 short film Corpo de Bollywood (Bollywood Embodied), all documentaries. Raquel Valadares is graduated in Cinema at Universidade Federal Fluminense (2009) and has a MA on Film Studies at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (2019), both top level Brazilian universities. Raquel owns, since 2007, the production company called Anima Lucis. In 2018, Raquel lives in São Paulo and participates, as a board member, of the API - Associação das Produtoras Independentes do Audiovisual Brasileiro.