Sophia Pinheiro Brazil, b. 1990

Sophia Pinheiro (Goiânia, 1990) is a visual artist, filmmaker, popular educator, and researcher. Her works, in various media, address countercolonial pedagogies, popular culture, womanhood, and ecologies, intersected by her feminist activism and alliance with indigenous peoples. She is one of the coordinators and advisors of Katahirine - Audiovisual Network of Indigenous Women and Full Professor of Cinema (Faap-SP). She is not an indigenous person, but since 2015, she has been working collaboratively with indigenous artists in visual arts, community cinema, and audiovisual and political training for various peoples, especially indigenous women.

She has participated in national and international exhibitions, illustrated books such as TEKO HYPY - a origem do mundo (TEKO HYPY - the origin of the world) (Editora Boitatá, 2025) with Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy, Leandro Kuaray, and Ariel Kuaray, and A Jabota Poliglota (Editora Boitatá, 2024) written by Denilson Baniwa, and co-directed films with indigenous and non-indigenous partners such as Nhemongueta Kunhã Mbaraete (2020) and TEKO HAXY – ser imperfeita (2018).