PhD in Anthropology and audiovisual filmmaker, he is the Deputy Coordinator of the Research Group on Visual Anthropology and Image (VISAGEM) at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. He is the director of the International Ethnographic Film Festival of Pará, the Amazon Cinema and Anthropology Colloquium, and the Visual Anthropology Meeting of Amazonian America. He is also an advisor and member of the Visual Anthropology Committee (CAV) of the Brazilian Anthropology Association (2025-2026). Winner of the 2018 Art and Culture Award from PROEX/UFPA, his films have received awards at the International Ethnographic Film Festival of Recife, the Açaí Film Festival, and the International Indigenous Film Festival of the Amazon.
Professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Winner of the International Aurélio da Paz dos Reis Award (Portugal, 2016). He works on various audiovisual and cinematic projects as a director, producer, and screenwriter. His work includes the feature documentary Al escuchar el viento (2013), selected for Seminci 2013; he was a co-producer of the transmedia documentary project La primavera Rosa (nominated for the 2018 Goya Awards with La primavera rosa in Mexico); and director, producer, and screenwriter for the documentary short films Espejismos (2022), Ausencias (2023), and La ciudad se mueve (2024). His latest feature documentary, José Luis Espinosa, el espía (2022), won the World Premiere Award and the Avanca Competition at the International Film Festival of Avanca, among other awards and selections.
Amália Córdova is the Supervising Curator of World Cultures and the Chair of Cultural Research and Education. A transdisciplinary academic and professor, she has dedicated most of her professional life to museums and educational spaces that engage with Indigenous knowledge and media, consistently integrating practice and theory. She is particularly concerned with issues of voice and representation. Amália has directed and produced several documentaries, most of which were collectively directed, and co-produced a web series titled Urban Indians. She brings a collaborative, transnational, and multi-sectoral approach to curatorial work, film production, and teaching. She has taught visual arts, art history, movement arts, and film, with a focus on Latin American, Indigenous, community-based, ethnic, and documentary cinema and video.
Ph.D. in Public Health. Full Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco. Vice President of the Ecovila Santuário dos Jatobás Association (AESJ). Participant in the Voices of the Ecovillage project (audiovisual memory of the ecovillage).
PhD in Artistic Studies, specializing in Theatre and Performance Studies, from the University of Coimbra, and Postdoctoral studies in Sociology – Sociology of Art from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Porto. He is a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo and a Visiting Researcher at NuPAA – Center for Autobiographical Artistic Practices at the Federal University of Goiás. He has authored numerous scientific articles on topics related to the arts and visual culture, theatre and performance studies, research methodologies through artistic practice, memory studies, artistic and cultural studies, and art and technology. His artistic work has been featured in museums, concert halls, public spaces, and events across Portugal, Austria, Spain, Finland, Brazil, Mexico, and South Korea.
José da Silva Ribeiro holds a Bachelor's degree in Film and Video from the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, a degree in Philosophy from the University of Porto, a Master's and PhD from the Universidade Aberta, and a postdoctoral degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He is currently conducting research in the fields of visual anthropology, anthropology and cinema, and auto-geo-socio-biographies. He is a visiting professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco - EDUMATEC. He is also a member of AO NORTE, where he coordinates the Cinema and Digital Narratives Study Group and the "Fora de Campo" - Summer Course at MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival. He participates in research projects in both Portugal and Brazil.
Graduate in Applied Mathematics from the University of Porto, worked as a computer technician at Caixa Geral de Depósitos. He has been dedicated to photography since adolescence, with some of his works published in books and magazines. Participated in collective exhibitions and held individual exhibitions and in co-authorship with Manuela Matos Monteiro. Among the various exhibitions produced are "Carnival in Venice", "The Harvest", "Crystalline light", "Istanbul - Roadmap of melancholy", "Tropicana / Matanzas", "South of Dakar" Istanbul and Lisbon - Roadmaps of melancholy ". Among other interventions, we should also mention his work in co-authorship on the river Douro: official photograph of the 250th anniversary of the demarcated region, an exhibition about the region in Parliament (" the Douro on the Tagus” with Siza Vieira, José Rodrigues and Gracinda Candeias), in the European Parliament / Brussels, Paris, Bordeaux, Maputo and Beira (Mozambique), in various areas of the Douro and Porto. Since October 2013, with Manuela Matos Monteiro, João has been running the galleries ESPAÇO MIRA and MIRA FORUM, in Campanhã, Porto.
Juliana Marra is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). She holds a Master's degree in Cultural Performances from UFG (2016). She has scientific and professional experience in the fields of History (Cultural, Visual, Regional, and Environmental), Arts, Audiovisual, Cultural Heritage, and History Education.
Luiz Joaquim (1970) is the author of the books Vinte e cinco: Escritos de cinema (1997-2022) (2024, CEPE); Celso Marconi: o senhor do tempo (2020, CEPE); and Cinema brasileiro nos jornaiscinemaescrito.com, created in 2007. Joaquim directed the short films Eiffel (2008) and O homem dela (2010). A journalist and master in communication, he worked as a reporter and film critic for Jornal do Commercio (Recife, 1997-2001) and Folha de Pernambuco (2004-2016). He also led the Cinema of Fundação Joaquim Nabuco from 2001 to 2017 and coordinated the Cinema and Audiovisual bachelor's program at Uniaeso (2017-2021), where he worked until 2024. He served as vice president of Abraccine (2019-2021) and, in 2021, was the head of Audiovisual, Art, and Technology for the City of Recife. In 2022, he managed the Museum of Image and Sound of Pernambuco (Mispe) and was the curator of Cinema São Luiz (Recife). Since May 2023, he has been responsible for coordinating the Cinema of Fundação Joaquim Nabuco and the Cinemateca Pernambucana Jota Soares, both under Fundaj (Recife, Brazil).
Manuela Matos Monteiro has a background in Philosophy and Psychology and is the co-author of books on Psychosociology, Psychology, as well as the author of books on Pedagogy, Project Methodology, among others (Porto Editora). She directed the magazine 2:PONTOS1st prize in the international competition “La femme et la vigne”. Her photographs have been published in books and magazines. Among her various contributions, her work in co-authorship stands out.
Professor in the 1st and 2nd Cycles in Cinema courses, at UBI-University of Beira Interior. Member of the editorial board of journals in Portugal and Brazil, as well as member of the scientific committee in several events. Member of the Advisory Board of the AIM-Association of Moving Image Investigators, where she is a coordinating member of the Working Group “Filmmakers’ Theory”. Co-editor of DOC On-line Magazine (www.doc.ubi.pt) and researcher at Labcom-Comunicação e Artes.
Medical doctor graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Federal University of Pernambuco. Preceptor for the medical residency in vascular surgery at the Hospital da Restauração. Specialization in transpersonal psychotherapy through the Brazilian Association for Research and Teaching in Transpersonal Psychology (ABRAPET). Collaborator in the education of youth and adolescents at the Irmãos Menores de Francisco de Assis Educational Center (NEIMFA) in the Coque community. Participant in the Voices of the Ecovillage project (audiovisual memory of the Ecovila Santuário dos Jatobás).
Professor at the Education Center of the Federal University of Pernambuco. Coordinator of the LEVE research group (Laboratory of Experience, Visuality, and Education). Participant in the Voices of the Ecovillage project (audiovisual memory of the ecovillage).
A Spanish documentarian, she has directed, written, and produced around thirty non-fiction works for television. She has worked for networks such as ARTE, France 3, RTVE, and Aljazeera, specializing in the Arab world. In 2020, her feature film debut, “Cartas mojadas”, premiered in the Official Selection at the Málaga Film Festival, where it won the Biznaga de Plata and the Audience Award for Best Documentary. In 2022, the filmmaker received the IDA / NETFLIX Award for Emerging Global Director, presented by the International Documentary Association, to support her second film, “Mi hermano Ali”, which had its world premiere at the 69th Seminci.
Raúl Alaejos is a visual artist and filmmaker. His artistic career is situated in the territory of film essays and non-fiction. He co-directs Serrucho.org, an experimental theater company whose pieces have been featured at Teatros del Canal during the Festival de Otoño in Madrid, the TNT Festival, and the Citemor Festival in Portugal. He has been part of the “Nuevos Comanditarios” program by the Carasso Foundation and the Fondation de France, and he is a member of the experimental television collective Neokinok. His work has been recognized at Documenta Madrid, the Videocreation Festival of Navarra, MajorDocs, and the UrbanTV Festival at La Casa Encendida in Madrid. He received the Leonardo Research Grant from the BBVA Foundation, which supported the creation of his latest film, “Objecto de Estudio”. www.raulalaejos.com
Coordinator of the Center for Studies and Research on Ethnicity (NEPE) at UFPE, he is an Associate Professor II in the Graduate Program in Anthropology at UFPE. He also teaches in the Inter-University Master’s Program in Ibero-American Anthropology at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He has expertise in Anthropology, with an emphasis on Indigenous Ethnology, focusing on topics such as Indigenous health and visual anthropology, conducting research projects with Indigenous peoples in Pernambuco and the Upper Rio Negro in the Amazon, specifically among the Hupdah of the Nadahup linguistic family and the Pankararu people. He is a member of the Visual Anthropology Laboratory of the Image, Sound & Human Sciences Center at UFPE and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pernambuco State Museum. He served as the national coordinator of the Visual Anthropology Working Group of the Brazilian Anthropology Association (ABA). He has held several leadership positions, including Director of the National Association of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences (ANPOCS) and General Coordinator of Museums at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation in Recife until January 2014. He was the General Secretary of the Brazilian Anthropology Association during the 2013/2014 term and currently serves as Vice-Coordinator of the Museums and Cultural Heritage Commission of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
Filmmaker, producer, and cinema programmer, Sandra has been dedicated to documentary cinema for over 20 years. She studied political science in Toulouse and journalism in Madrid, and graduated in cinema. In 2004, she co-directed and co-produced the feature documentary 200 KM, which premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Since then, she has worked as a producer in cinema and audiovisual projects. She has directed short films such as Haciendo Memoria, A través de sus ojos, and La iniciación, among others. At the end of 2022, she premiered her two latest works: the feature documentary Archipiélago, which she co-directed and co-produced, and the short film Lo que no fue, which participated in numerous national and international festivals and won the Audience Award at the Alcances Festival. She is the president of the DOCMA Association.
