Adriana Ribeiro is a Brazilian-Irish writer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist whose work merges personal narrative with political inquiry. Her practice spans across film, literature, and performance and is grounded in a deep commitment to social commentary and personal truth-telling. With a background in TV and film production and years of experience as a line producer for cinema and television, Adriana brings a sharp, detail-oriented approach to storytelling, fusing structural precision with emotional depth.

Based in Ireland since 2015, Adriana’s creative voice is inseparable from her experience as a migrant navigating the complexities of identity, legality, and belonging. Her lived encounters with state bureaucracy, cultural displacement, and border politics have informed many of her most acclaimed works. Whether through a quiet poem or a layered film, she consistently interrogates systems of power and the invisible lines that define who gets to be seen, heard, or remembered.

Her writing is often intimate and lyrical, drawing from autobiographical elements while addressing broader themes such as womanhood, queerness, and memory. One of her most resonant pieces, the chronicle I Woke Up Illegal Today, has circulated widely within migrant communities and activist circles for its raw and honest portrayal of life as an undocumented person in Ireland. In it, Adriana articulates the silent, daily negotiations that come with existing in liminal legal status, prompting readers to reflect on the fragility of identity under surveillance. Similarly, her poem Daily Life, published in Flare magazine, explores the repetitive violence of waiting, longing, and invisibility—themes central to her wider body of work.

Adriana’s filmography reflects her sensitivity to storytelling across genres. Her debut documentary, Libre: The Celebration of the Queer Body, won five international awards and was praised for its unapologetic celebration of queer joy, resistance, and embodiment. It was a bold, poetic invitation to reimagine freedom—not as a legal condition, but as a felt experience lived through community, dance, and vulnerability.

Expanding into fiction, Adriana directed her first short narrative film, Just a Second, a meditative and atmospheric work that captures the unspoken tension between two women over the course of a single afternoon. The film unfolds with subtle emotional shifts, using silence, glances, and physical space to navigate desire, disconnection, and the weight of time. It marked a shift in Adriana’s filmmaking approach—one more focused on interiority, stillness, and what lies beneath the spoken word.

Her forthcoming book, They, Women, continues this exploration through prose. The novel focuses on the evolving relationship between a mother and daughter as they navigate womanhood in a world defined by expectations, silence, and generational trauma. It is a tender yet uncompromising study of care, resistance, and the emotional labor that often goes unnoticed between women in families. With a reflective and lyrical style, Adriana uses the domestic sphere as a lens to discuss much larger questions about identity, agency, and inherited beliefs.

Adriana has also developed performance work that brings her lived experience directly into conversation with audiences. On The Edge, a performance-based piece, critiques the dehumanizing pace and language of immigration bureaucracy, using repetition and movement to mirror the psychological toll of waiting for legal recognition. Another of her theatre pieces, Exchanged Letters, grew out of a six-month workshop process with a Brazilian director and was performed during Culture Night in Dublin. In this work, Adriana blurs the boundary between personal archive and public performance, using letters—real and imagined—to question authorship, memory, and loss.

As Adriana expands her practice, she is now turning her attention toward the intersection of technology and creativity. In a series of upcoming essays and critical reflections, she will write about artificial intelligence and its role in the evolving landscape of the arts. Her focus will be on how AI tools challenge traditional notions of authorship, originality, and artistic labor, particularly in contexts already marked by cultural and economic precarity. By examining both the potential and the dangers of machine-assisted creativity, Adriana hopes to contribute to a deeper conversation about what it means to make art in an age of automation.

Adriana continues to seek collaborations with artists who view art not as entertainment, but as a form of resistance, a method of inquiry, and a space for transformation. Her work is committed to truth-telling—even when uncomfortable—and to creating spaces where those at the margins can see their stories centered, valued, and heard.