Davi Pretto (Porto Alegre, 1988) is a Brazilian screenwriter and director. He wrote and directed his first feature film CASTANHA which premiered in 2014 at 64th Berlin Film Festival in Forum section and won the Best Film New Trends award at Rio de Janeiro FF. He returned to the 67th Berlin Film Festival – Forum in 2017 to premiere his second feature RIFLE. The film also won the Grand Prize at Jeonju Film Festival and was screened at FID Marseille. In 2018 he was selected to the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence. His third feature CONTINENT was made in co-production between Brazil, France and Argentina and was supported by the World Cinema Fund. The film will premiere in 2024 at the 41st Munich Film Festival in the CineRebels competition. In the same year, he shot his fourth feature FUTURE FUTURE, currently in post-production.