Flavio Frederico was born in 1969 in Rio de Janeiro and studied Architecture and Cinema at the University of Sao Paulo. He directed 7 short films, among them Todo Dia Todo (1998), Copacabana (1999) e Ofusca (2002), all of them exhibited in important festivals such as Sundance, New York, Oberhausen, Tampere, London and Rotterdam. His first feature film, Urbania (2001), supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, had its première at Rotterdam, where it obtained an average of 8,26/10 from the public. Urbania was also exhibited at Montreal, Mannheim-Heidelberg, NY Latin Beat, Mar del Plata, among others. 

He has also directed five documentaries, among them Caparaó (2006), the winner of the festival É tudo verdade - It's all true, the most important documentary film festival in Latin America. In 2010 he released the feature Boca (2010) at Rio's Film Festival, getting Best Cinematography and Editing Prizes. The documentary  Em busca de Iara (2013) is his last feature film.