Felipe Fonseca, also known as Fon, is a 26 years old creative film director, born and raised in Curitiba, in the south of Brazil. For the last couple of years, he has been featured in a few festivals and editorials, as booooooom and the 45th yearbook of the Creation Club of São Paulo.

At 17, he was a business partner and founder of Estudio 172 alongside Rafael Skraba. Together, they created this independent creative and film studio that reached the mark of 25 million views on YouTube, with the original project "Estudio 172 sessions", bringing different artists from the Brazilian music scene.

From 2018 until 2019, he directed original content and advertising at Asteroide, a film company based in his hometown, with more than 20 Cannes Lions on its shelf.

Since 2020, he has been working as creative director for Jovem Dionisio, the number one Brazilian band on the billboard in 2022, with the album "Acorda Pedrinho", which he creatively directed the entire project. With hits like "Pontos de Exclamação" and "Algum Ritmo, the band has already performed all over Brazil and Europe.

Besides that, he is directing films for selected artists in Brazil, one of them is Julia Mestre, the Latin Grammy winner of 2021. The result of this partnership is his most recent work: “Arrepiada,” a long-format music video for the song that brings the name of her brand new album.

Fon was the finalist at Ciclope Latino, Berlin Commercial and Music Video Festival (mvfbr) as “new director” and won the prize at Los Angeles Indie Short Fest as “Best Music Video.” See below the festivals that he had been nominated:


awards

  1. Finalist on Brasil Music Video Festival 2022
  2. Winner on Clube de Criação do Paraná 2021
  3. Finalist on Buenos Aires Music Video Festival 2021
  4. Finalist on Bogotá Music Video Festival 2021
  5. Finalist on Ciclope Latino 2020
  6. Winner on Los Angeles Indie Short Fest 2020
  7. Finalist on Berlin Commercial 2020
  8. Finalist on Chicago CineYouth Festival 2020