Daniela Thomas is a multimedia artist. She directs and writes films, creates opera and theater sets, writes and directs plays, designs and curates exhibitions. She was born and is based in Brazil, but her work has been seen, exhibited and played around the world. It all started in the early 80s at La MaMa Experimental Theater in New York. She then moved back to Brazil, where she partnered with Walter Salles, writing and co-directing three features, Foreign Land (1996), Midnight (1998) and Linha de Passe (Palm D'Or for Best Actress to Sandra Corvelloni at the 2008 Cannes Festival), and many shorts, including the Paris, Je T'aime segment Loin du 16e (2006) and the Half the Sky segment Back (2018). Thomas also directed the features Sunstroke, with Felipe Hirsch (2009), Vazante (2015) and O Banquete (2016). She was one of the directors of the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics and the Flaghandover Ceremony in the 2012 London Olympics.