Biography
Ana Carolina (born 27 September 1943) is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She directed seven films between 1969 and 2003.
In 1978, she was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1982 film Heart and Guts was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
Ana Carolina Teixeira Soares attended school with the intention of becoming a doctor, but instead changed direction and became a filmmaker. She graduated in 1964 from University of São Paulo Med School. Several years later she went to a School of Physiotherapy, taking special interest in university politics. She also spent a few of her early years in a Renaissance band called "Musikantiga".
She was highly focused in her early years as a filmmaker, as she made 11 do…
