In 2000, Ricky Mastro received his first degree in Drama from the University of Washington (Seattle). Returning to his native country, Brazil, he followed that with a degree in Cinema from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (São Paulo) and a Master’s in LGBT Identities from Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (São Paulo).
In 2015, he moved to Toulouse where he got a DURCA Diploma from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Audiovisuel. (DURCA: Diplôme Universitaire de Recherche et de Création en Audiovisuel).
To date, Ricky has written and directed 8 short films that were distributed to over 200 festivals around the globe. He was part of Fucking Different São Paulo which had its premiere at Berlinale – Panorama 2010.
In 2018, Ricky Mastro started his first feature film project with Léon Diana. 7 minutes (2020) was shot and finished in two years, and it has been distributed to many territories around the globe, like: North America, Germany, France, United Kingdom and Southeast Asia.
Nowadays, Ricky is in development with Léon Diana on two new feature film projects: The Invisibles and Giulia.
Ricky is very active in the LGBT+ festival circuit. He is the film programmer for the International Festival of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Goiás – Brazil. Also, he created RECIFEST (Festival LGBT+ in Recife, Brazil).
Ricky also teaches film directing at two schools in Toulouse France: ACT Formation and Ynov University.
Filmography – (selected films and selected festivals):
Giulia- In development
Artistic supervisor Philippe Barrière (Torino Film Lab, La Scénaristerie)
The Invisibles (Os Invisíveis) – In development
Cinéma en développement, Cinélatino Toulouse
Carlinha and André, 2023, HD, 10 min
Financed by the short-film award from the State of São Paulo, Brazil (Proac 56/2020.
Xavier and Miguel, 2022, HD 12 min
Financed by the LGBTI+ award from the State of São Paulo, Brazil (Proac 16/2020)
World premiere in 2022
- Rome Independent Film Festival
- Film Out San Diego
- Mixbrasil
- Lovers Film Festival
- Sofia Meetings, Work in Progress
La Tempête (The storm), 2017, HD, 16 min
- Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 37th Uruguay International Film Festival.
- Beijing Queer Film Festival, China.
La Tapette (The Mousetrap), 2016, HD, 9 min
- Image+Nation, Montreal, Canada
- Out & Loud Pune International Queer Film Festival 2017, India
- In and Out, Nice, France
- Zinegoak (Off Zinegoak), Bilbao and Fire, Barcelona, Spain
- Frameline, San Francisco, California.
- BFI Flare, UK.
- New York International Children’s Film Festival.
- Chéries Chéris, Paris, In and Out, Nice, Festival des Images aux Mots, Toulouse, France.
- Close, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- Merlinka, Belgrade, Serbia.
Cinco Minutos (Five Minutes), 2008, fiction, 35 mm, 10 min
- 12th Festival Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.
- Festival International Cinema Latino-Americano, Havana, Cuba.
- 25th Festival International Gay and Lesbian Hamburg, Germany.
Felizes para sempre (Happily ever after), 2009, documentary, video, 7 min
- As an episode of Fucking Different São Paulo: 60th Berlinale Film Festival.
- Some prefer cake, Italy.
- Copenhagen LGBT Film Festival, Denmark.
A mais forte (The Strongest), 2009, 35mm, fiction, 15 min
- 33rd Festival International de São Paulo.
- International Queer Film Festival Kashish Mumbai, India.
- Newfest, New York.
- Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Slovakia.