Felipe Mucci was born into a family of filmmakers in Brazil and was in front of a camera before he could walk. He studied at Sheridan College in Toronto, then earned his MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. His thesis film, Vlado, drawn from his father’s life as a journalist who survived the Brazilian military dictatorship, was a Student Academy Award—Oscar^® semifinalist. In 2020, Felipe directed the television movie Two Deaths of Henry Baker, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival, received two Canadian Screen Award nominations, and streams on HBO. His debut feature, Detained, starring Abbie Cornish and Laz Alonso, streams on Paramount+ and has accumulated over 150,000 streams in Latin America alone. His current project is Storgé, a screenplay born from being separated from his mother during COVID, not knowing if their goodbye would be their last.

Storgé — Cata has spent sixteen years as an undocumented immigrant in Tucson, building a life for her son Beni. When her father is critically injured in Mexico and not expected to survive, she has hours to raise fifteen thousand dollars, make a deal with a loan shark, carry a coyote’s package across the border, and decide whether saying goodbye to her father is worth risking the only life she has ever fought to protect.