Fernanda is a Toronto-based screenwriter who draws inspiration from her experience as a queer Latina immigrant to write stories about home and longing.
A Brazilian import, Fernanda D’oro Fontes moved to Canada in 2017. In Toronto, she has completed the Television Writing and Producing post-graduate program at Humber College. Now, she writes, story edits, and dabbles in web development (to the delight of her brother).
Much of her inspiration in storytelling is drawn from her experience as an immigrant and the lingering memories and saudade of her culture, family and home. For over two years, she worked as a Development Manager at CaribbeanTales Media Group, supporting and overseeing the development and packaging of multiple projects. In 2022, she was selected as a participant of the Read Latinx initiative.
On the side, she writes hour-long dramas about queer folks, quotes old movies and cries listening to the work of Stephen Sondheim.
Original pilot | Hour-long | Sci-fi, Mystery, Period Drama
Near the sunken town of Cannich, something in the water erases people from the memories of all who knew them, forcing a guerrillheira in exile to revisit her past when her stepson is its newest victim.
Original pilot | 10-min web series | Romantic Comedy
At a grimy college in the middle of nowhere, a grade-A nerd and first-year Anthropology student starts a biweekly queer potluck to study how to "queer-fy" a second-wave feminist practice. Unfortunately, one of the few queers on campus, a free-spirited, scatterbrained nature-lover, joins the group and threatens to disrupt the highly controlled study.
Original pilot | Hour-long | Period drama
A queer woman’s plan to blend into Depression-era Toronto falls apart when a new resident arrives at the all-female boarding house where she lives with working-class immigrants and castaways.
Original pilot | Hour-long | Coming-of-age, Mystery
PETRA, the leader of the pack of 12-year-olds, must solve the mystery of the building where she lives with Latine immigrants factory workers and their children to keep her best friend from being sent back to his parents' home country.
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