Paulo Pontes (1997) was born and raised in Parahyba, with family roots in Curimataú, Paraíba. In 2018, he moved to Recife, where he graduated in Cinema from UFPE. He works in the areas of directing and executive production, in addition to forays into the field of expanded cinema, where he investigates the in-between places triggered by the intimate and community flows and displacements of the cities he lives in and travels through. In this universe, he directed and produced the video dance Cidade Coreográfica (2019), premiered at the RS International Video Dance Festival. He directed the short film Entre Muros (2020), which is part of the feature film 70 Olhares Sobre Direitos Humanos, produced by Instituto Cultura em Movimento - RJ. He worked as an assistant director on the TV series Drag Ataque, produced by Plano 9 Produções. In addition to experiences such as the Ka'a Exercise, in 2022, as proposed by curator Allan Yzumizaw, resulting in an exhibition at Paço das Artes, in São Paulo. In 2023, he was awarded the award for the film Cartas de Arapuca as Best Experimental Short Film at the Trancoso Film Festival in BA.