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Lucca Vieira is an award-winning 21-year-old Brazilian-born filmmaker based out of South Florida. He has been producing skits, animations and videos since the age of eight. At just 16, his debut short film, 'Parkland: Stories from the Survivors', was screened at four film festivals nationwide, and his latest horror short, "Silhouette," was selected at over eight film festivals across the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, his awards include two National YoungArts Foundation Merit prizes, a Scholastic Art and Writing Award, and a Best Student Short award at the Miami Short Film Festival. Now, at age 20, 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.