Ricky Mastro is a Brazilian filmmaker, producer, and curator. He studied Drama at the University of Washington, Film at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) in São Paulo, and directing at ENSAV Film School in Toulouse. His work is guided by an ethics of the gaze attentive to gesture, duration, and the relationship between body and image. He has directed ten short films and one feature. His films have screened at international festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Berlinale Panorama, Frameline and BFI Flare. His feature 7 Minutes was distributed in eight territories. Ricky is the founder of Poney Films and Mostra Queer Brasil, a platform that has presented Brazilian films in cities including Oslo, Bratislava, Vienna and Glasgow. He has served as a jury member at the Queer Palm in Cannes and other international festivals. He is currently developing the feature films Boy Lixo, Tarzan, and Giulia; the series Mundinho; and the literary project Pauliceia Queer.

Tarzan — In the suffocating streets of São Paulo, Tarzan, a young dancer surviving alongside his boyfriend Gabo, a small-time dealer, films sex for cash and blackmails their clients. When they target a solitary writer from Paris, the scheme fractures, pulling all three into a spiral of desire, paranoia, and survival.