Samanta do Amaral completed her BA in Communication Studies with emphasis on audiovisual media at the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) in 2003. Her first short film Infidelity (2003), a stop-motion shot on 16mm, was selected by a number of film festivals, including Anima Mundi. She is interested in photography and has worked as a colourist since 2006 in Brazil’s most important post-production companies, including Mega Studios, Teleimage/Casablanca, Cinecolor Digital (Chile Films) and DotCine. Over a career that spans more than 10 years, she has done the colour grading for numerous short- and feature-length films as well as TV series, often working with illustrious names of Brazilian cinema. Her most recent works include the music video ‘Lalá’, by Karol Conka and the multi-award winning documentary Bixa Travesty (Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman, 2017). She is a member of DAFB (Brazilian Collective of Female Cinematographers) and also teaches about the use of colour in audiovisual media.
Currently she is colourist at Quanta Post.