Pedro Paulo Araújo is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer whose work merges fiction, documentary, and experimental practices to explore questions of identity, belonging, and the unfamiliar. Moving fluidly between analog and digital media, his films often blend scientific inquiry, myth, and sensory immersion to challenge the boundaries between the real and the imagined.
Raised across Brazil, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, Araújo brings a distinctly global perspective to his practice. His shorts and installations have premiered at international festivals and art spaces, engaging audiences with hybrid forms and an emphasis on texture, landscape, and narrative experimentation.
Alongside his independent work, Araújo has written and produced award-winning music videos that have collectively surpassed billions of views on YouTube. He was a screenwriter on Junoon, the first Saudi Arabian horror feature, which was acquired by Netflix, and his professional experience in film acquisitions has provided him with a deep understanding of the global circulation of cinema.
Drawing from his global upbringing and cross-disciplinary practice, Araújo creates scripts and cinematic experiences that blur the edges of reality and fiction, inviting viewers into spaces where the familiar becomes strange and the strange becomes deeply human.