Rita Toledo is a screenwriter, director, and producer. She created, wrote, and produced for Globoplay the ten-episode fiction series The Life Ahead, produced by Daza Filmes, a company she co-founded in 2010. The series was nominated for Best Fiction Series Screenplay by the Brazilian Screenwriters Association and for Best Fiction Series at the 2024 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro. Rita is currently writing the feature Bete, produced by Daza Filmes and Gullane. She is also co-directing, alongside Isabel Joffily, the hybrid documentary Morro Grande, supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund. Rita began her career writing and producing short films, including O Som e o Resto, which premiered in the Cinéfondation Selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. She received an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, as a recipient of a Fulbright/CAPES scholarship. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents and a member of Projeto Paradiso’s Talents Network.

Bete — During an official mission in 1985, actress and congresswoman Bete Mendes comes face to face with the man who tortured her during Brazil’s military dictatorship. When she decides to break her silence, she risks her career, her safety, and the fragile balance of the country’s young democracy. Moving between the spotlight of the stage and the shadows of the underground resistance, Bete tells the story of what power cannot tolerate: a woman who turned her life into a radical act of freedom.