FILM
Tassia is a Brazilian writer, director and multidisciplinary artist based in London. A social justice advocate, she is dedicated to telling inclusive stories that amplify diverse voices and foreground human rights values.
Most recently, she completed her documentary Ties (2025), which won the Audience Choice Award at the 8th Women of the Lens Film Festival. The film was also selected for the 33rd African Diaspora International Film Festival, the Toronto International Women Film Festival, and the Montreal Women Film Festival.
She is currently developing a short documentary about Mexican photographer Elisa Iannacone as she travels to the Congo to continue her long-term project Hope in the Rubble, highlighting the lives of children in war zones.
She is also developing a new feature documentary project that follows three Ukrainian dancers displaced by war as they try to rebuild a sense of belonging, turning to dance as their last form of resistance. This project has been selected for a prestigious two-month pitch development workshop called Lab: Displaced Women featuring mentorship from acclaimed Director Charlie Melville, Photographer & Cinematographer Elisa Iannacone, Executive Producer & Director Emma Whitlock and The Wickers Consultant Editor Jane Mote.
Her portfolio also includes the short documentary Thread in Blue (2011), which received an award at the Asolo Art Film Festival; and the short fiction film Home Sweet Home (2014). She has also directed branded content for Converse, TikTok, YouTube, Google, and Under Armour - including a docu-series for Under Armour that spotlights young athletes striving to go pro.
PHOTO
Alongside her film work, Tassia specialises in portrait photography, focusing on women and the LGBTQIA+ community.
ART
Her film collaborations with visual artists inspired a passion that evolved into her own artistic practice. Working across photography, film and installation, she explores how light, colour and space shape the way we see. By playing with over and under-exposure, layering and distortion, she breaks down familiar views opening up new ways of seeing.
Since joining the Picture Berlin artist residency in 2017, Tassia’s work has been shown in group exhibitions in São Paulo, Berlin and London.