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Victória Kubiaki (born October 12, 1994) is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker, journalist, producer and artist. Her genre photography, filmmaking and artistic reinventions have received Brazilian and abroad awards.

She volunteered, developed and coordinated different documentary projects (multimedia/filmmaking/photography/art) about the social reality on Brazil and United States (Los Angeles and New York City) with subjects like Brazilian culture, American Culture, Brazilian Art, Immigrance, Human rights, Riots, Politics, Voting, Art, Feminism, Women's Rights, LGBTQIA+ Rights and Right to housing.

Daughter of a carnavalesco from the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), she started competing on Brazilian Carnival from the age of 1 to 10, in Brazilian competitions for performance and best costumes.

The competitions were something alike the American Child beauty pageant and a costume competition until the revelation of on Halloween. The contest featured contestants under 18 years of age. The competition categories included talent, performing and the Carnaval's Best Official Costume.

The contestants could wear anything from artistict makeup to personalized adornments. She won all the contests she participated on Brazil. Her figurine included characters from music, audiovisual and literature like Carmem Miranda, The Sound of Music, Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo and The Little Mermaid.

Career
On 2014, she started a street photography project called "City of Angels" in Los Angeles with pictures about her daily life living as a nanny, the social reality of the immigrants on LA and the people on the streets.

She used to photograph on the streets with Marc Todd, an American Street Photographer, that uses just black and white film and photographs different kinds of subjects like American culture, riots, streets, social movements and daily routines on LA.

Her artist career started in LA on 2014 when she joined the dubbing team of ABC, Cristela (2014 - 2015), making part of the sitcom laugh dubbing.

On November 23, 2014, she worked on the Extra (Acting) team on the vip seats with the nominated artists for the The 42nd Annual American Music Awards ceremony, held on  at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, California. The awards recognized the most popular artists and albums of 2014. Iggy Azalea led the nominees with six categories.

It was broadcast live on ABC. Pitbull was announced as a host on October 20, 2014. NSYNC's Lance Bass, Chelsea Briggs, Kandi Burruss, Gavin DeGraw, Frankie Grande, Taryn Manning, Jordin Sparks, Morgan Stewart and Ted Stryker were all announced co-hosts of the pre-show on November 7, 2014.

The special received 11.61 million viewers, the fourth-most that night.



She used to sell greeting cards on Santa Monica with positive messages about Feminism, Body positivity, LGBTQIA+ community, feminism and freedoom of speech.

On 2015, Valentines day, she sold cards on Downtown LA, passing by the Santa Monica Park and the Third Street Promenade, the same day of the shooting of Love has no Labels from Ad Counsil on the Third Street Promenade.

On the winter of 2017, she started a street photography project called "Baby, It's Cold Outside" on New York City, that year NYC had the coldest New Years Eve in 100 years. The city was plunged into a deep freeze, a "bomb cyclone" unleashed more snow, ice, rough surf and cold winds from Florida to New England. Temperatures were uo to 40 degrees below what they normally do rhis time of the year.

The city's Department of Homeless Services had put Code Blue service into effect beginning at 4 p.m., which opened up the shelter accomodations to more homeless New Yorkers in need.

One of her pictures available on Unsplash of a postal worker on the snow storm illustrated a publication on the New York-based publisher Consequence about the David Lynch's Weather Report, when he brought back his eccentric yet delightful weather report videos after a nearly 10-year hiatus. While most feature Lynch’s meteorological assessments — the “wispy clouds” and “golden sunshine” of the day — recent entries have also touched on important social issues.

On 2018, she started a documentary project, available on YouTube, with Casa Tendenza Galleria about Brazilian traditional artisans and artists from different cities and states of Brazil as Sergipe, Alagoas and Minas Gerais, called Arte Brasil. On this project she made the script, photography direction, edition and was the Marketing Strategist Assistant of Tales Morigi, Brazilian Marketing Enterpreuner and Photographer.

On Arte Brasil, they interviewed Brazilian Artists like Vicentina and Juliana Julião, João Julião, Guto and Tiago Carassa,, Antônio Julião, Elisa Pena, Rhayane Paschoalin, Capilé, Yang Farias, José Petrônio Farias dos Anjos, Camile and Vandinho, Lela, Amélia and Alzira, Beto Pézão and Nidinho.

On the documentary film, the artists talk about their work as a family tradition surviving sometimes more than 5 generations on different states of Brazil, and how they make art with natural resources they find on their surroundings. The artisans and artists talk about their peculiar techniques learned by their ancestors, the originary community of Brazil, the indigenous community, black community (starting their influence on Brazilian History since Portuguese colonists brought Africans from different countries as slaves to Brazil that began midway through the 16th century until nowadays) and immigrants from Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, France, Polland, Russia, etc. The techniques they use includes Renda Irlandesa, Barro Barroco, WoodCraft, Rendendê Embroidery, "Good night" Embroidery and Brazilian Traditional Ceramics.

The art projects, expositions and collections that Victória assisted, as Arte Brasil, were on nacional and international fairs as Abup on Abimad on São Paulo and Milan Furniture Fair on Saloni del Mobile on Milan.

Nowadays, she leads a Branding Agency with a paralel Social Project, called Cajuína, where she volunteers as a brand and branded content teacher for a community of tradicional artisans and artists from the 26 states of Brazil to improve their businesses. She and her team develops personal or company branding strategies and digital content with the storytelling technique for Brazilian Artisans, Artists and Entrepreneurs, to get to the goal to sell their products or services by social media.