Bio

 
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Beth de Araújo is a Writer and Director featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film and was nominated for the 2022 Gotham Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. Her debut feature film, Soft & Quiet, premiered at SXSW 2022 Film Festival and was acquired by Blumhouse and distributed by eOne.

Her Moth story, Don’t Move, based on her feature screenplay, Josephine, participated in the 2018 Sundance Directors Lab, Screenwriters Lab, is a recipient of the SFFILM Rainin Filmmaking Grant, and the Dolby Institute Fellowship. Araújo performed in three sold out shows for The Moth Mainstage at BAM Theater in NYC, Byham Theater in Pittsburgh, and The Palace Theater in Los Angeles in 2019. Her AFI Directing Workshop for Women short film is based on her Gawker essay, I Want To Marry A Creative Jewish Girl, won best screenplay at Hollyshorts Film Festival.

Araújo has a BA in Sociology from The University of California Berkeley and an MFA from the American Film Institute. Her mother is Chinese-American and her father is from Brazil. She was born and raised in San Francisco with her three sisters and is a dual citizen of both Brazil and the United States.