CURRENT MISSION

To make a film in China!

ABOUT ME

I am living for almost a year now in Berlin. Before I studied for three years in NY, where I graduated with a MA in Media Studies. Now in Berlin I work as a youth educator and I am making my own films. My films have been mostly documentaries or experimental films on 16mm or Super 8mm. This year I will be shooting a documentary project in China. Of course it's super low-budget, but at least I have total creative control ...

PHILOSOPHY

I try to enjoy and appreciate what I have and what I do. Live in the present and stop worrying what should have/ could have happened.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

In the past I participated by hosting or meeting people, but I didn't had the resources in NY and stopped using CS for a while. I just met a old friend again, who I knew through CS, and that reminded me how great the platform is. Now in Berlin I plan to participate by hosting and meeting people again.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I started using Couch Surfing when I was living in Brazil and I met some really nice people. I got the chance to spent a holiday weekend with a family at their grandparents farm and to eat every kind of traditional homemade food. I am still in touch with some of the people I met on CS and we continue to visit each other.

Interests

I love to go to the movies. I also love second hand stores, flea markets, coffee and waffles afternoons, good book stores, cake, filming and taking pictures, meeting people, Chinese dim sum and traveling of course...

• books
• documentaries
• dining
• coffee
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• hunting
• surfing
• communications
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

People that inspire me are Jonas Mekas, Nathaniel Dorsky, Chris Marker, Stan Brakhage & Marie Menken. But I also watch a lot of independent films or documentaries.

I'm not so up to date with music, but I like Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, Lou Reed and Sunset Rubdown ...

Authors I like are David Foster Wallace, Naomi Klein, Chuck Klosterman & Hermann Hesse. I also love the German weekly newspaper "Die Zeit".

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Colombia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Germany, United States