Laura Carvalho is a Brazilian production designer graduated in Audiovisual Arts from the University of São Paulo, she holds a Master's Degree in Film Theory & Aesthetics from the same institution. She has participated in national and international projects.

She has worked in the art department since 2008. As a production designer, she has worked the feature films The Day is Long and Dark (Mexico-Colombia), Wilding Country (Brazil), Hug (Brazil), The Swamp Dead Man (Hong Kong-Brazil); the French series Death Corner and Demain si J’y Suis, the German short film M/Y Eclipse, Awakening Multimedia Performance (Singapore), the Italian-Brazilian animated film Pety’s Adventures, as well as several others in Brazil. She was a set designer for the Netflix series Time Hustler.

She is also an alumni of Berlinale Talents 2021 Production Design Studio Program. She is member of the Production Designers Collective (international) and Bra.da Collective of Women Production Designers from Brazil.

She has participated in Artist in Residency Programs in Japan and Brazil, with projects investigating the presence of color in popular architecture. Her research establishes a parallel between color, moving image and visual arts; its results were presented in Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom. 

She has taught Production Design and Art Direction classes in Guatemala (Universidad Francisco Marroquín) and Peru (invited by DAFO, the Peruvian Ministry of Culture). She is the coordinator of the Production Design and Set Design courses at Bucareste Ateliê de Cinema.