Documentary & TV Series Director

Eduardo Rajabally is a documentary and tv series director, journalist and scriptwriter who has an experience of 28 years as a tv professional. He has conducted over 3 thousand interviews, directed 18 documentaries and more than 350 episodes for tv, working all over Brazil and in Europe, USA, Asia and Latin America. He has created and directed for BBC, Globo TV, GNews/GloboFilmes, Globoplay, Disney+, NatGeo, HBO, AXN/Sony, A&E, Discovery Channels, Animal Planet, Canal Brasil, Arte 1, GNT, Multishow, Telecine and OFF Channel (Globo TV cable channels), TV Brasil, TV Cultura and TVE (Brazilian public channels), Canal Cuatro Spain, TVI Portugal, ESPN and Eurochannel, with licensed works for Amazon and Netflix.

Rajabally has extreme sensibility for delicate and emotional stories, which he builds with simplicity and inspiring interviews. His specialties are Brazilian themes – historical, social and environmental ones, but with a global approach, and also complex investigations.

Some of his most important works include: Pademic Portraits (GloboPlay/2022), a doc series that casts a retrospective and profound look on how the Covid-19 pademic affected our lives, exploring the stories and point of view of those working on the frontline (doctors, nurses, scientists and journalists); Brazil: One Virus, Two Worlds, BBC’s latest documentary related to the Pandemic and quarantine time in Brazil; Future-Proof Present, first Brazilian film about Circular Economy, filmed in Brazil and in Europe; Life on the Move, a feature film that has been around the globe investigating how inactivity is threatening human health; The Reinvention of Art Football, a TV movie about Brazilian football’s present situation, shot in Brazil and Europe; the documentary Para Gostar de Ler, that investigates the connections between reading and imagination on children; Aging (HBO), a series of eight documentaries about getting old; Wild Camera, a documental series that uses high technology to film wild animals; 2^nd season of Doctors, a documental series about the lives of eight different doctors in one of the best hospitals in Latin America; game show The Brain – a television format created by Endemol and showcased on National Geographic Channel; Bull Rider, a full-lenght documentary shot in Brazil and in the US; Mission Extreme, shot on distant and exquisite locations in South America for Discovery Channel; the second and third seasons of tv series Taboo Brasil, for NatGeo; the award-winning full-lenght documentary Unknown Amazon; Animal Rescue, a tv series about the expansion of urban areas over wild animals habitats, exposing them to great danger; three seasons of Till Death Do Us Part – a non-fiction tv series about famous crimes of passion in Brazil; 1981 – O Ano Rubro Negro, a documentary about Flamengo’s football world cup conquest 30 years ago; O Brasil é Aqui, the first Brazilian tv travel show; Europa Paulistana, runner-up tv film in Emmy Awards International 2007; Caixa Mágica, a documentary on the history of São Paulo’s middle east immigrants; Brazil Amazing Tour tv show, filmed in all nine states of northeast Brazil, and broadcasted only in Europe; Ensaio Geral, a tv series about Brazil’s popular music scene; variety show Circo do Edgard; tv series Mobilização Brasil, winner of Vladimir Herzog Human Rights Prize; documentary short-movie Cabeceiras do Xingu, about the indigenous peoples of central Brazil, and the reality show Diário de Bordo, an ambitious project which accompanied very closely seven pilots during the biggest off-road race in South America, crossing over 3,500 miles.

Rajabally is currently the director of Volta Priscila, his new True Crime doc-series for Disney+ about the sad and enigmatic story of Priscila Belfort, sister to MMA champion Vitor Belfort, missing without a trace for the last 20 years. His last projects, released in 2024 are: On the Dust Trail, official film for the Rally dos Sertões race 2024; Stolen Stories (Grifa Films/Canal Brasil), a True Crime tv series about the tragic international network of child trafficking, with shootings in France and Brazil; Iron Society (Prodigo Films & Globo Filmes), a feature-film about capitalism and globalization; Grains of History, a beautiful film about the story of coffee in Brazil, already premiered and soon on TV; doc-series Sound Architects (Grifa Films), about Brazilian musical instruments makers; and Sobre_Vivências (Tocha Filmes), a doc-series that discusses the biggest social, economical and environmental challenges of the 21st century.

New projects are on their way for 2025: Made in Dafen, a feature film about painters and their art, shot in March/2024 on location, in Shenzhen, Southeast China. And Geografia da Ausência (Geography of Absence), a doc-series about great anonymous characters in Brazil’s countryside, telling their stories of oppression, resistance, silence and hope.