"Every project I'm part of carries a piece of me. Everything I do comes from the heart."
Rhaissa Gonçalves was born in 1990 in Curitiba, Brazil. She studied Advertising at Universidade Positivo, Photography at Universität Weimar in Germany, and later Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Miami. That last move changed everything — cinema became not just a career, but a way out.
In 2014, she joined IHC Studio as executive producer and became co-founder the following year. Since then, she has produced every film and commercial project the studio has released — from short films shot across four continents to Coração de Neon, the first Brazilian feature mixed in Dolby Atmos.
Rhaissa is also a professional colorist. She color-graded Coração de Neon and dozens of other projects, developing a visual language that balances naturalism with emotional texture. Her color work has become one of IHC's signatures.
Beyond cinema, Rhaissa is a visual artist. She paints, experiments with mixed media, and develops personal art projects like Creatures — a series exploring identity through surreal imagery.
In 2018, she and Lucas opened IHC's second headquarters in Miami. Together they built a studio where nothing leaves the house unfinished — script, direction, production, soundtrack, color, distribution, marketing. Everything under one roof.