Carlos Chagas Costa
Festival Director
Carlos Chagas Costa is a multi-designer, art director, audiovisual editor, publisher, writer, playwright, visual artist, and producer, working with artistic languages since 1984. He began his career as a visual artist and theater director in the 1980s. In 1995, he began to dedicate himself to the study and projects of graphic design, lighting design, and web design. In 1999, he founded his design agency, 'creAcao Studios', in Fortaleza. In 2001, he founded FÁBRICA7 Consultoria Cultural with Paulo Benevides. He moved back to São Paulo in 2003, where he developed publishing, branding, and advertising projects. He worked as executive director and art educator at the OSCIP L'E7VOX, as well as technical director at the Ressurreição and Nelson Rodrigues theaters, in São Paulo. In 2022, he founded OIA Editora, publishing great Brazilian writers and his own work, consisting of three books of short stories. He returned to Fortaleza in 2024, where he currently manages OIA Editora, in São Paulo, and works actively at PROPONO Consultoria Executiva, in Fortaleza. For 40 years, he has dedicated himself uninterruptedly to contemporary writing, visual arts and design.
