Journalist and producer

Tania Menai is a New York-based journalist, and the author of six books, including the stories of 23 Brazilians living in the city told in first-person. This book is a result of a career in journalism, which made her known for her ability to interview one-on-one dignitaries and ordinary people of our time: from Israeli Shimon Peres and Italian Renzo Piano to Americans Larry King, Rudy Giuliani, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone, the list includes CEOs, Nobel Prize recipients, actors, writers, doctors, and historians, among many others. She had also co-written a book with Rabbi Nilton Bonder, as well as a children’s book about Shabbat with Rabbi Luciana Pajecki Lederman. She wrote and edited a guide to New York City, a book telling the roller-coaster story of one of the most prominent Brazilian start-ups, Peixe Urbano, and co-wrote the story of 99, Brazil’s first tech startup unicorn.

She moved from Rio de Janeiro in 1995 to take classes in Communications at New York University. Her career started at the Wall Street Journal Americas, and she continued as a correspondent to relevant magazines, radio stations, TV, and websites in Brazil, including Veja and Exame (the local equivalent to Time and Business Week). For three years, she was also in charge of communications for Lily Safra, the widow of banker Edmond J. Safra.

Editor

Award-winning filmmaker Cintia Chamecki moved from Curitiba, Brazil, to New York City in 1997 and worked as a dancer and choreographer there until 2007. In 2007, Cintia co-founded FILMADAY, a production company specializing in producing short documentary films that capture a day in the life of a child as a family keepsake. To date, FILMADAY has produced more than 50 video portraits. Cintia produced, edited, and directed the feature-length documentary ESTAMOS AQUI – HERE WE ARE (Danken Got). It won the Audience Award at the 11 Punta del Este Jewish Film Festival, the official selection for the Miami Jewish Film Festival 2014, the 17th Sao Paulo Jewish Film Festival, and the Curitiba Jewish Film Festival, among others.

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