Lorenna Montenegro is a journalist, film critic, curator, screenwriter, and screenwriting professor at the International Film Academy (Academia Internacional de Cinema – AIC). She is a member of the Elviras Collective, ABRA (Brazilian Screenwriters Association), and Abraccine. She currently serves as General Secretary on the board of FORCINE – the Brazilian Forum for Film and Audiovisual Education. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism, studied Audiovisual Production at PUCRS, and earned a specialization in Cinema and Audiovisual Language at Estácio de Sá University. Lorenna also teaches Documentary Screenwriting at Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena, in the postgraduate Performing Arts program. She offers courses and workshops on film history and criticism, screenwriting and audiovisual narrative, construction of affirmative characters, the heroine’s journey, and feminist film studies – such as The Pioneers of Cinema, a course co-taught with film critic, cultural journalist, and documentary filmmaker Flavia Guerra. Lorenna is an international voter for the Golden Globe Awards and publishes reviews and film festival coverage on her blog Kinemacríticas.com. She also contributes to the newspaper Diário do Pará, through which she covered the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Since 2020, she has coordinated the As Amazonas do Cinema Film Festival.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication – Journalism and Specialization in Film and Audiovisual Language at Estácio de Sá University
- Master’s student in the Graduate Program in Audiovisual Communication (PPGCOM) at UAM (Anhembi Morumbi University).
Jury Member – Festivals and Film Showcases
- Festival de Cinema de Gramado – 52nd Edition (2024) – Official Jury, Gaúcho Feature Film Section
Curator – Festivals and Film Showcases
- Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro – 57th Edition (2024) – Selection committee for the national short film competition
- Mostra Curta Circuito Transgressoras Brasileiras do Cinema (2024) – Curator
- Mostra Cineastas, Substantivo Feminino (2024) – Curator
- Mostra Mulheres Que Norteiam – FIM Cine 2024 (2023) – Curator
- Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro – 56th Edition (2023) – Selection committee for the national feature film competition
- FIM Cine 2023 – Feature Film Showcases (2023) – Curator
- Mostra Luna Alkalay – Fantasias do Real (2024) – Curator
- Mostra Seis Vezes Mulher (2023) – Curator
Courses, Workshops, and Lectures
- Course: Outsider Cinema of the 1940s/50s (2024) – Instructor
- Workshop: Techniques for Screenwriting, Fiction and Other Forms (2024) – Instructor
- Workshop: Film Criticism and Feminist Cinemas (2024) – Instructor
- Masterclass: Film Curating from a Diverse and Decolonial Perspective (2024) – Instructor
- Workshop: Audiovisual Screenwriting – From Basics to First Draft (2024) – Instructor
- Masterclass: Animated Cinema (2024) – Instructor
- Workshop: Film Criticism and Cinephilia (2024) – Instructor
- Course: Filmmakers, a Feminine Noun (2024) – Instructor
- Course: Women – How Far Have We Come? (2024) – Instructor
- Course: The Modern and Feminist Fables of Greta Gerwig (2024) – Instructor
- Course: Building Affirmative Characters (2023) – Instructor
- Course: The Feminist Fables of Greta Gerwig (2023) – Instructor
- Film Criticism Training (2023) – Instructor (Module II)
Panels and Public Engagements
- Talk: Body Horror – Collapsed Bodies and Minds on Screen (2024) – Participant
- Panel on Tata Amaral’s Web Series (2024) – Participant
- Debate on A Flor do Buriti (2024) – Moderator
- Pre-release Debate: 20,000 Species of Bees (2024) – Moderator
- Special Screening + Debate: Dogtooth (2024) – Moderator
- Conversation on Barbie (2024) – Participant
- Seminar: Women 60+ in Audiovisual (2023) – Participant
- Colloquium: Cinema in the Amazon Made by Women (2023) – Participant
- Special Screening + Debate: Gerontophilia (2023) – Moderator
- Event: Unboxing Barbie (2023) – Participant