Filmmaker, musician, visual artist and actor. He produced, directed, scripted, acted and edited dozens of films, presented at film festivals like Berlin, Sundance, Visions du Réel and Brasília. Lima directed the features O Tempo Não Existe no Lugar em que Estamos (2015), which was awarded the best film award at Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes, Planeta Escarlate (2016), co-directed with Jonnatta Doll, and Rompecabezas (2020). He was also part of the editing team for the film The Edge of Democracy (2019), by Petra Costa. 

Graduated in cinema from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, and specialized in cinematography at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, in France. He was director of photography for several recent Brazilian feature films, such as Yorimatã (2014, 38th Mostra), by Rafael Saar, The End of an Age (2014, 38th Mostra), by Bruno Safadi and Ricardo Pretti, Drought (2015, 39th Mostra), by Maria Ramos, Seven Years in May (2019, 43rd Mostra), by Affonso Uchôa, and The Cannibal Club (2019), by Guto Parente, works presented in film festivals like Visions du Réel, DOK Leipzig, Locarno, Toronto and Rotterdam. Rotten Boy is his debut as a feature film director.