Abstract
This research proposes the study of the creative process of Douglas Machado, a filmmaker from Piauí, in the documentary Um Corpo Subterrâneo (2007), with the approach propose by Ceclilia Salles (1998) as basis, while congregating the many steps of the making of the film, with the director´s material that reveal the idealization and concretization of the film. With over twenty years of inv…