Fernanda Cardoso hails from Sao Paulo, Brazil and holds a film production degree from the University of Southern California. She was a recipient of the Ila Rosenbaum Screenwriting Scholarship at the University of Miami, the Barbara Boyle Scholarship from Film Independent and was a quarter-finalist of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 2014. Fernanda wrote and directed the feature film "Bloomington".