Luiza Paiva is a Creative Producer with an MA degree in Media Practice for Development and Social Change at the University of Sussex as a Stuart Hall Scholar. She specializes in the production of films with a human rights angle and is a member of the Global Impact Producers Alliance created by DocSociety. She started her career at VideoFilms working for the award-winning filmmaker Walter Salles and has recently worked on several features, including Firebrand, directed by Karim Ainouz (Official Competition Cannes Film Festival 2023), and on projects produced under the slate of the Academy award-winning UK production company Violet Films.