Bruna Arbex is a Brazilian-Canadian filmmaker, editor, and director based in Vancouver. Her work blends grounded realism with subtle surrealism, often exploring alienation, identity, performance, and the tension between intimacy and spectacle.
With over a decade of experience across narrative, documentary, and commercial projects, Bruna has edited and produced feature films, including the TELUS documentary Heard, and co-produced the indie feature Crawdaddy. She has directed branded and campaign work for clients such as Absolut Vodka and Hershey, bringing a cinematic sensibility to commercial storytelling.
Her narrative work leans into psychological realism with restrained genre elements, drawing influence from European arthouse cinema. She is currently developing her debut feature, I Used to Be Me, a character-driven story about parasocial obsession and identity collapse, and continues to build long-form projects that interrogate cultural myth-making and social disconnection.
Bruna is represented by Workshop Film Co. and has been teaching directing for the past four years at Vancouver Film School, where she mentors emerging filmmakers in developing personal voice and cinematic intention.
