Fernanda Faya is a filmmaker, cinematographer, and educator born and raised in Sao Paulo, and based in Queens, New York. NEIRUD, Faya’s feature film documentary debut won the Grand Prix and Best Editing Awards at the 2023 Curitiba Int'l Film Festival (Olhar de Cinema). She is currently finishing the short doc ALONE TOGETHER, an intimate glimpse into the lives of elderly immigrants living in a low-income home, and developing her first fiction film, BETE, recipient of Spcine Development Fund. Her first film ONE FOR THE ROAD explores the migration of her Jewish grandparents from Romania to Brazil diving into her own Jewish heritage as she relocated to New York City and it premiered at DOC NYC Film Festival and screened in festivals worldwide. She holds an MFA in documentary storytelling from Hunter College Integrated Media Arts program and is a professor of Cinematography at Brooklyn College in New York. Faya is a member of the Brazilian Collective of Female Cinematographers (DAFB).