Every frame is a way in.
The deeper you look, the thicker the plot.
[Storyteller | Editor | Filmmaker]
[ Selected work / 01—11 ]
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[ Behind the frame ]
I'm Noan, a Brazilian storyteller in Los Angeles. I've cut campaigns for Honda, Acura and Ram, produced and acted in a feature now on Netflix MENA, and hosted a Mr. Robot breakdown 355K people watched. Wherever I sit, the job is the same: find the moment that makes you feel it.
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Commercials, campaigns, features and branded films.
An aspiring vlogger leaves Saudi Arabia for Southern California with his wife and his best friend, chasing footage of the paranormal. Then the footage starts chasing them.
Junoon is a found-footage suspense film set between Los Angeles and the mountain town of Idyllwild, a Saudi and American co-production made in Arabic. Noan produced it alongside co-director Maan B. and appears on screen as part of the ensemble.
The film went from an independent shoot in Southern California to an official selection at the Red Sea International Film Festival, jury awards for Best Feature and Best Cinematography at Faten Hamama IFF, Best Editing at Nice IFF, and a release on Netflix across the Middle East and North Africa.
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A launch film for Spout, a countertop machine that pulls clean drinking water out of the air. It starts with a planet running short and ends in one kitchen that never hauls another jug.
The film opens at planetary scale: Earth from orbit, crowds, fields and water passing through hands. Then it narrows to one family and the everyday weight of bottled water, from five-gallon jugs and delivery vans to grocery-store runs.
The turn comes at the product reveal. A motion graphic traces air into the machine and fresh water out of it, and the spot closes on the open road and the line "Be the water revolution."
Two :30 spots for Ram's Built to Serve campaign. One rides with firefighters on the line; the other moves through ranch life, family and celebration. Both land on the same promise.
Built to Serve pairs the people who carry a community with the truck that carries them. The first spot cuts between wildfire, firefighters and the cab; the second trades flames for open ranch land, charro style, dance and family.
Both spots work the same structure: real moments carry the emotion, product beats and claims land between them, and each closes on the Ram badge and "Built to Serve."
Ten seconds, two coasts. The next-generation Acura Integra leaves a sunset on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles and arrives in the neon of South Beach.
A :10 has no room for a slow build, so the edit is built from transitions. Split-screen collages stack the car against palm trees, street signs and hotel neon, a wipe carries it from LA dusk to Miami night, and a cafecito pour marks the change of city.
The last third settles on the car itself: headlights through Ocean Drive, the taillight signature, the "Next-Gen Integra" super and the Acura end card.
Ten :15 spots for the redesigned 2019 Honda HR-V Sport, made for Spanish-language audiences. Every spot asks the same question, ¿Cuál es tu próxima aventura?, and answers it with a different adventure.
Ten spots, one structure. Each opens on a different kind of adventure, from a mountain trail and a lakeside campsite to a stadium crowd, a concert and a pickup soccer game. The HR-V gets everyone there, the question appears on screen, and the spot closes on the Honda badge and "La rediseñada HR-V Sport 2019."
At fifteen seconds each, the hook has to land in the first second and the car has to earn its moment by the fifth. Running the full set back to back shows how one template stretches across ten audiences without repeating itself.
A square-format spot for Honda's Hispanic Heritage Month: a young builder, his family, and the teal Civic hatchback at the center of it all.
A portrait in twenty-five seconds. The spot cuts between its subject on a stack of tires in his garage, a family photo, and close details of the car: the Sparco seat, the engine bay, the Japanese plate. It closes on the Civic under the Hispanic Heritage Month title.
Cut square for social feeds, so every frame is composed for a phone held upright as much as for a screen.
A :30 social reel for FluidLogic's smart hydration pack, cut around off-road racing: dirt bikes in the air, a trophy truck in the dust, and a pack that decides when the rider drinks.
The reel alternates between two speeds. Racing footage runs fast and close: gloves on the bars, the bite valve, the app on a wrist, a truck sliding through sand. Between the bursts, black particle cards slow everything down to land one claim at a time.
Four claims build the argument, from "Intelligent Hydration" and "Strategic Dosing" to "Predicts What You Need" and "Delivers When It Counts", before the line "The Science of Flow" dissolves into the FluidLogic end card.
A finale breakdown for the Kitchen Films channel. Two hosts take apart the last episode of Mr. Robot and make the case for who the real Elliot is.
The video opens like a hack: a terminal types its way to "TheHack.sh" and executes into a red title card. From there it cuts between two hosts at the desk, scenes from the series and on-screen evidence, including a Hollywood Reporter interview with creator Sam Esmail.
Noan cut the piece and appears on camera. The job was to keep a twelve-minute argument moving: each claim lands on a clip, each clip hands back to a host, and the series' own visual language carries the graphics.
Two :30 spots for Prenuvo's whole-body MRI, one for Mother's Day and one for Father's Day. Each opens on a body seen from the inside, follows a parent into the scanner, and lands on the holiday offer.
Both spots share one structure. A 3D anatomy figure builds on black under a single line ("This is my body on the inside" for Mother's Day, "You can only manage what you can see" for Father's Day), then the film cuts to an ordinary day, into the clinic, and onto the results in the app before the offer card.
Noan cut both spots and finished them, handling the sound mix and the color correction, so the cold black of the anatomy openings and the warm daylight of the rest read as one campaign.
A :30 for Bizee, the company that helps people start an LLC. One small jam business grows from a kitchen table to a farmers market to a storefront with its own name over the door.
The spot is built as a rise: jars carried down a city sidewalk, a laptop open to Bizee's "Start your LLC," a farmers market stall, a handshake with a store owner, and finally Birch Berry Jams with the OPEN sign lit. Bold "WORTH IT" type punches in between the beats and keeps the pace.
An orange wipe carries the last frame into the "Start your LLC" card and the Bizee end card, with the founder back at her laptop where it all started.
A vertical hype reel for Midnight Rally Club's racing gloves, cut like a VHS tape found under the seat of a dune buggy.
The whole reel lives inside a worn videotape: tracking glitches, a VCR "STOP" and "SLP" readout over the desert, color bleed on every cut. Split-screen panels stack glove close-ups on top of each other, then open up into buggies throwing dirt across the hills.
Cut vertical for phones, it ends on an "I want my UTV" gag on an '80s music-TV logo before the Midnight Rally Club mark glitches into place.
I'm a Brazilian filmmaker, editor and storyteller based in Los Angeles. I've worked in front of the lens, in the edit bay and behind the camera, and I bring all three to every project: an eye for performance, a feel for pacing and a focus on what makes the story connect.
Most of my days are spent in the edit. I cut commercials and campaigns for brands like Honda, Acura, Ram, Prenuvo, Bizee and Spout, and I take a spot from the first rough cut through compositing, sound and color to final delivery.
I also produced and acted in Junoon, a feature that went from an independent shoot in Southern California to festival awards and a release on Netflix across the Middle East and North Africa. On the other side of the lens, I've hosted and cut video essays, including a Mr. Robot breakdown that reached 355,000 views on a 30,000-subscriber channel.
If you can't do it, no one [Noan] can.