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Rodrigo Diaz Diaz, born in 1979 in Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil, initially established himself as a fiction director, having worked in many different positions in almost all the major production companies in São Paulo. He directed the TV series "Escola 2.0" (TV Cultura 2010/11); the second season of "A Garota da Moto" (SBT/Amazon Prime Video, 2019); he was also the Production Supervisor of the first season of "Samantha!" (Netflix, 2018). In film he highlights his award-winning short films "After Lunch" (premiered at the Panorama Berlinale in 2010 as an episode of the omnibus film “Fucking Different São Paulo) and “The Angel and I” (produced for the 2013 Cultura Inglesa Festival). In 2019 he turned his career around, moved back to his hometown Campinas, and focused on producing documentaries with Laboratório Cisco, while also creating, developing, and coordinating impact campaigns for these films. In 2020 he joined the Instituto Taturana - Mobilização Social, a social organization and impact distributor for documentaries. He is the impact producer for "Limiar (Threshold)” (Coraci Ruiz, 2020), a film whose impact campaign was developed out of Impact Lab, Doc Society's training program held at DocSP 2019, and participated in the first Good Pitch Brazil, where he got the CSN Foundation/Histórias que Ficam award. As Projects Director of Taturana, he supervises the organization's impact campaigns. Rodrigo is also part of the coordination board of the Latin-American Film and Social Impact Forum, with the first edition in June 2022 in São Paulo, organized by Instituto Taturana (Brasil), Doccolabs (Colombia), Ambulante, and Impacta Cine (Mexico).