Natasha Neri is a journalist, Brazilian filmmaker, and researcher of Human Rights and Criminal Justice who studied Sociology and Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She directed the documentary Auto de Resistencia (2018) (Police Killing in English and Letal in Spanish) alongside Lula Carvalho. The film, based on Neri's research, describes the different stages of processing of several cases in which people were killed in alleged clashes with the police in Rio de Janeiro, the so-called "resistance acts."