Carol Rodrigues is a director and screenwriter whose poetic audiovisual work explores issues of race, gender, and class. Her first feature film, Criadas (Maids), is currently in post-production following a prestigious development trajectory. The project won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2023 Cabíria Festival, in addition to receiving three awards at BrLab in 2017. It was also selected for Cinélatino 2018 in Toulouse, France, and for the Audience Design Workshop with TorinoFilmLab in 2018, and was a finalist at the FRAPA Screenplay Competition in 2020. Most recently, she worked as a screenwriter on a melodrama series slated as one of Netflix's major 2026 releases, currently in pre-production and directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho.

Carol has also directed three award-winning short films that achieved success at both national and international festivals: A Boneca e o Silêncio (The Doll and the Silence, 2015), A Felicidade Delas (Their Happiness, 2019), and Mãe Não Chora (Mother Doesn't Cry, 2019), which she co-directed and co-wrote with Vaneza Oliveira. Her efforts to foster discussions related to The Doll and the Silence through screenings and debates held in cultural centers, public schools, and social and labor movement organizations led to her recognition as one of the Inspirational Women of 2015 in the Arts & Entertainment category by the NGO Think Olga.

In addition to her directing work, Carol has written for television series such as Escola de Gênios (School of Genius, Gloob), 3% (Netflix), and Pico da Neblina (Joint Venture, HBO). In recognition of her work, she was nominated for Screenwriter of the Year at the 2020 ABRA Awards.

From 2020 to early 2023, Carol served as Creative Executive for Fiction Series and Films at Amazon Studios Brazil. During this period, she oversaw projects from their earliest stages of development through post-production, seeking to balance creative approaches to narrative structure with ethical and political considerations related to representation, diversity, and inclusion. She had the opportunity to lead projects such as the series Lov3 and the second season of Manhãs de Setembro (September Mornings), as well as co-lead the series Amar é para os Fortes (Love Is for the Strong).

Carol has also been committed to sharing her knowledge and experience as a mentor and tutor in several industry initiatives. She served as a feature film mentor at FRAPA in 2022, participated as a tutor in Netflix's Colaboratório program in 2020, Netflix's Segundo Ato program in 2022 and 2023, the Cabíria Award in 2019, and APAN's LAB Negras Narrativas in 2017 and 2021.