Lucca Vieira is an award-winning 23-year-old Brazilian-American filmmaker based out of South Florida. He has been producing skits, animations and videos since the age of eight. His short films have been selected and awarded at various film festivals across the U.S. and Canada since the age of 16, and he is a two-time YoungArts and Scholastic award winner. Most recently, he has written and directed his first ever feature film, 'The Midway Point,' starring, among others, Thora Birch ('American Beauty'), Wes Studi ('The Last of the Mohicans,' 'Heat'), and Julie Benz of 'Dexter' fame. His proof-of-concept body horror short, "Shift," is currently in its festival run. more...