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Deborah Osborn
Deborah Osborn was born in São Paulo, Brazil. After graduating in Social Communication from the Superior School of Advertising and Marketing (ESPM), she worked for three years in the film department of the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound (MIS). During that period she also worked at It’s All True Documentary Film Festival and at São Paulo International Short Film Festival. In 1998, she attended an extension course in cinema at New York University. In 2000, she worked for the GW Production House, doing research, as curator and production for “Movimento GNT” television program. She was responsible, in 2002, for the interface between GW Production House and Channel GNT for the “Saia Justa” program.In late 2002, she worked as post-production and release assistant for the feature film “Carandiru” by Hector Babenco. In 2004, she was granted a Chevening Scholarship by the British Council and completed her master’s degree in cinema at Goldsmith College. In London, she also worked for Buena Onda Films, coproducer of Brazilian film "City of God".

Back in Brazil, in January 2006, she began as Executive Producer for bigBonsai, a Production Company of which she is one of the founding partners. bigBonsai is a Production Company that works in the development and the production of communication projects with special formats for different platforms such as internet, television, cinema, among others. In 2014 the multi-platform documentary Dominguinhos, about the life and work of this great master of Brazilian music, was released and has been selected to important international film festivals around the world including IDFA, Moscow International Film Festival, SXSW, Doc Lisboa and Dok Leipzig. Its webseries has more than 2.8 million viewsThe company is currently producing two documentary TV series: “My Life is Circus” (8x60’for HBO Latin America) and “Palavras Permanecem” (6x26’for Canal Curta!) just to name a few.

Over the past years she has attended the mayor international film markets, such as Marche Du Film, Berlinale, Venice International Film Festival, Moscow IFF, Ventana Sur, IDFA, Sunny Side of the Doc, among others. Recently her project “The Book of Delights” (dir Marcela Lordy) has participated at BrLab Development Workshop and Eave on Demand São Paulo. Deborah regularly acts as film mentor at SXSW and is a jury member or speaker in important Brazilian Film Festivals, such as Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Gramado, Recife, Curitiba and São Paulo International Short Film Festival.

At the same time, she teaches a regular course on documentary production at B_arco (http://barco.art.br/documentario-para-cinema-e-tv-4/).