Eleonore Belasi is an Italian-Austrian-Brazilian writer and director working between theatre and film. She grew up in Spain and Italy and studied philosophy in Vienna, graduating with a master’s degree in 2022. In 2019, she made her theatre debut with RUHIG BLUT, which won the prize at the Autorentheatertage and premiered at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Her plays are published by S. Fischer and have received numerous grants and awards. She now focuses on film, developing horror and thriller projects for arthouse cinema. In 2025, her feature project CASTIGO was awarded the first-stage prize in the Vienna Screenwriters’ Forum’s competition, and her other film projects have also received funding and script support.
She is currently working on her first feature film as a writer-director.
Eleonore lives in Vienna.