Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian artist who works in the fields of performance, direction, research and environmental artistic activism. She is a partner of Aruac Filmes and the creator of the Margins Project - On Rivers, Buiúnas and Fireflies, a multilingual project dedicated to artistic creation based on listening to the testimony of Brazilian rivers experiencing catastrophe. The scope of this project has already included plays (Guerrilla or For Land There Are No Missing Persons and Altamira 2042), feature and short documentary films, publications, debates, workshops, the Buiunas network (a network between women, rivers and art) and, more recently, the acquisition of land on the banks of the Xingu River to create a space for artistic residence. In the theaters, she has worked with directors such as Ariane Mnouchkine, Georgette Fadel, Felipe Vidal, Ivan Sugahara, Celina Sodré, Isaac Bernart and Pedro Brício. She also worked for the cinema as a producer, screenwriter, assistant director and actress.