Franco Groia is a director, screenwriter, director of photography, executive producer and university professor born in Juiz de Fora (MG). Graduated in "Social Communication" at the Faculty of Social Communication at Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), has specialization in "Globalization, Media and Citizenship" also from UFJF. He directed and produced several advertising pieces, special music on DVD and short and feature-length fiction films.