FERREIRA
The Full Story
FILM / WRITING / DIRECTING
I'm a Los Angeles–based Director / Writer / Producer with 20+ years of professional experience and a particular love for queer stories, comedy with heart, and characters who don't usually get the camera. If one of these projects speaks to you — or if you have one of your own that does — let's talk.
In Development
Stories about people on the margins finding each other — across language, identity, and circumstance.
King Dope - TV Series
Writer / Director / Producer
A Los Angeles ride-share driver finds unexpected purpose in the fleeting connections with his passengers — every ride a step closer to healing, honesty, and a new way of living.
Three Ways - Feature
Writer / Director / Producer
A a non-binary teenager whose lesbian mother kept their gay sperm donor off the birth certificate, disguises themself as the donor's "type" to engineer a first meeting nineteen years in the making.
Frank - Feature
Writer / Director / Producer
She was twenty-three, drunk, brilliant, and pressing every buzzer in the building. A hard-edged song-cycle feature about a woman becoming the artist she barely survived being.
Tales, the Truth - TV Series
Writer / Director / Producer
Once upon a time, the fairy tales were the official press releases. A scripted competition series where iconic princesses compete weekly for a crown.
Selected Work
As Mona Assassina (2020)
Web Series
Writer / Director / Star
A Portuguese-language LGBTQIA+ variety show fronted by a fictional semi-literate travesti whose voice — typos and all — drives the comedy.
Three episodes.
Do These Stripes Make Me Look Political? (2019)
Short Documentary
Writer / Director / Editor
A portrait of artist Ramona Otto, her pledge of allegiance to the American flag, and the body of work she's built using it as her central image.
Brazilian Waltz (2016)
Short
Writer / Director / Producer / Editor
When a man catches a glimpse of the future he could have, he pursues completion — night and day — until he finds it.
Now You Know (2019)
Short
Writer / Director / Editor
Friends and family stage an intervention to help a metrosexual young man come out — with the help of a West Hollywood psychotherapist and memories of everyone's past.
Doctor Puppet (2018)
Web Series
Writer / Director / Producer / Star
A A fake-reality comedy starring "puppet whisperer" Dr. Puppet, who works through problematic puppets and the owners who love them.
Continuity (2009)
Short
Director
An undecided college student finds a strange object in his house and discovers he's at the center of a physics experiment that doesn't yet exist.