William Lourenço
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
William Lourençod a Silva was born in August, 16, 1996 in Itapevi, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
He started his audiovisual career in 2013, producing humorous content on his YouTube channel. He moved to São Paulo in the same year to study Radio and TV at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi. In the same year, he created Noticiário: his oldest project in production and a satire on traditional television news, mixing information and humor. In 2022, the project started to be produced for his YouTube channel as a web series in celebration of his first decade of career. In 2023, Noticiário also began to be produced in podcast format, being heard on the largest audio streaming platforms in the world.
In 2015, he was the script supervisor of the fictional short film Me Lembrou Durango.
In 2016, he created, produced and presented the radio show Os Radialistas on Rádio Anhembi (university station) until 2017. This year he was also part of the production team of documentary Hoax: Online Excesses, in parallel with his stand up comedy performances.
He created in 2020, together with his friend Joao Gabriel Silva, Podcast Cafezinho with William Lourenço: his longest project in production so far, where he is the announcer, screenwriter, director and executive producer. Joao participates as a columnist and is also an executive producer. Podcast Cafezinho has already been nominated and won several journalism awards in Brazil and Latin America.
William is also a registered journalist in Brazil, with some certificates from the School of Digital Journalism of the French Agency AFP.
In 2023, he premiered another web series on his YouTube channel: Do Cu Mentário is based on an idea of his from 2019, where he satirized the format of documentaries. Here, a platform personality is mentioned per episode in a humorous way.