In 1990 she worked as research assistant and still photographer in the documentary It's All True, based on an unfinished film by Orson Welles.
[3][4] In 2002 Roberta attended screenwriting workshops at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba where she began to develop the script for her feature film Rânia.
In 2005 she made Travessia, a transatlantic film installation, showing her short Wake Up and her docudrama Deixa Ir (Let the Movement Travel), simultaneously in Fortaleza and Amsterdam.
Deixa Ir is then selected for the main competition of the Rio Festival - Premiere Brasil 2005 and Wake Up receives awards for Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Actor (Dic van Duin) at For Rainbow 2007.
In the first half of 2019 she makes the installation The Author's Room in Amsterdam and in August 2019 starts pre-production to film Meninas do Benfica which premiered on Canal Brasil in February 2022 and is available at Globoplay streaming platform.