Ivete Lucas

Ivete Raquel Lucas is a Brazilian-Mexican-American documentary filmmaker, editor, and producer. She is known for her long-term collaboration with her partner, the filmmaker Patrick Bresnan, with whom she has co-directed a series of documentaries set in and around Pahokee, Florida, a rural town on Lake Okeechobee in the Florida Everglades. Lucas edits and co-produces the pair's films; their short documentaries The Send-Off (2016), The Rabbit Hunt (2017), Roadside Attraction (2017), and Skip Day (2018) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. Their first feature, Pahokee (2019), premiered in the Sundance documentary competition and was later broadcast on PBS.