Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Anita Rocha da Silveira has written, directed and edited three short-films:The Noon Vampire (2008), Handball (2010, FIPRESCI Award at the Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen), and The Living Dead (2012, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight). Her first feature Kill me Please (2015) was screened at the Horizons section of the Venice International Film Festival. Medusa is her second feature film.