Originária da China, Agnes Meng é realizadora e documentalista. Tirou o mestrado no programa DocNomads Erasmus Master, e está atualmente inscrita no doutoramento em Artes dos Media da Universidade Lusófona. Trabalhou como assistente de investigação em Antropologia no sudoeste da China e na região tibetana. De momento, está a desenvolver uma trilogia documental dedicada a histórias folclóricas e personagens do Douro, Minho e Trás-os-Montes.
Albertino has a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Paris V-Sorbonne (1981) and a doctorate in Sociology from Universidade do Minho (1994), where he aggregated in the Sociology disciplinary group (2005). He has been teaching, since 1982, subjects in the field of social sciences methodology and cultural sociology, lifestyle and the arts. Coordinator of the post-graduation courses at Institute of Social Sciences, a member of the founding committee of Casa Museu of Monção and researcher at the Studies Center Communication and Society.
Multi award winning film director. Born in Turin, he defines himself a Film Director by mistake. He grew up in Turin in Italy where he was practising the flânerie, the art of strolling, investigating the city by discovering places, peoples and stories. Before becoming a Film Director he worked as school janitor, sales man for an unknown circus, illegal museum guide and deliveryman of yellow pages. He spent much of the late 1990s travelling Europe writing and in 2001 he moved to Ireland. His documentaries and films have garnered a remarkable raft of international awards in festivals around the world. Negrini's most acclaimed work deals with social exclusion, magic realism and resistance and his works combine documentaries, fiction and poetry.
Winner of the Aurélio Paz dos Reis International Award 2016. He has worked on different projects as a screenwriter, producer and director, among which we highlight: Senegal. Apuntes de un viaje, 2007; Sunuy Aduna (Nossas Vidas), 2009; 20 anos dando vida aos dias, 2012. The feature-length documentary Al escucha el viento (2013) as producer, screenwriter and director was selected for competition at the International Festival de Valladolid 2013. Co-producer in the transmedia documentary project La Primavera Rosa (nominated Goya Awards 2018 in Mexico). His most recent project was the short documentary Juan Brito: Tamia (2019). The Webdoc project: Mirages on Highly Vulnerable Refugees is currently being completed.
Álvaro António Gomes Domingues (Melgaço, 1959) is a geographer, PhD in Human Geography and associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. Teaching activity: Teacher of the integrated master's and doctoral program in Architecture and PhD Course at FAUP; Member of the Scientific Council at FAUP; Professor of the Master’s degree "Project of the Urban Environment" (FAUP/FEUP); Teacher of PhD Course of Architecture of the University of Coimbra.; Professor of the Summer Courses at the Serralves Foundation; Visiting professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Visiting Professor at the University of Granada. Regularly collaborates with other universities, foundations, Público newspaper, cultural and professional associations, whilst developing a regular activity as a lecturer. Research fields: Urban Geography, Urban Planning, Landscape, Territory, Cultural Policy. His recent books include: Vida no Campo (ed. Dafne, Porto, 2012), A Rua da Estrada (ed.Dafne, Porto, 2010) and Políticas Urbanas II (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2012 with Nuno Portas and João Cabral).
Ana Balona de Oliveira is an art historian and curator. She is Assistant Researcher (FCT/CEEC) at the Institute for Art History of NOVA University of Lisbon (IHA-NOVA), where she co- coordinates the line ‘Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Art: Identities and Representation’. She is Invited Assistant Professor at FCSH-NOVA, having lectured in several institutions in Portugal and the UK, where she obtained her PhD in History of Modern and Contemporary Art (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 2012). She has published extensively in Portugal and abroad (Third Text, Nka – Journal of Contemporary African Art, African Arts, ARTMargins, etc.). She has curated exhibitions in Lisbon, London, Guimarães and Luanda, with artists such as Ângela Ferreira (Mozambique/South Africa), Edson Chagas (Angola), António Ole (Angola) and Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (Angola), among others.
Cultural manager and film programmer. Of Chilean origins, she was born in Madrid and raised in Cuba. She studied Computer Engineering in Havana, Cinematography at EICTV in San António de los Baños and, later, completed a Master's in Audiovisual Distribution and Film Criticism at ECAM, Madrid. She has been an audiovisual professional since 1994. In 2006 she founded DOCMA, the Documentary Cinema Association in Spain, where she directs and coordinates multiple seminars and screenings with internationally renowned figures. In 2012, together with the DOCMA team, she created the 3XDOC / Meeting of Creatives festival, which she continues to direct today. She was co-artistic director of the Documenta Madrid International Film Festival between 2017 and 2019, where she created the Final Cut Professional Film Forum. She is currently part of the programming team at MajorDocs, Creation Documentary Film Festival, Mallorca and the selection committee at EFA, European Film Academy. She works as a consultant for film funds and festival curator, in addition to being part of project evaluation and selection committees. She regularly serves as a jury at film festivals. Andrea started EL MAR FILMES, her own cultural management, event organization and consultancy house. Andrea teaches promotion, distribution and festival strategy classes at film schools and programs such as CIMA, Impulsa and Documentary Masters.
Angelos Rallis studied Film, Anthropology and Photography in Sweden and the UK. He started his career in theatre and TV in Greece. His early work has been published in newspapers, press agencies and NGOs around the world. Winner of the Jean Loup Passek Award/ MDOC – Best Feature Film 2023, with the film Mighty Afrin: in the time of flood.
Alina Simone is a Ukrainian-American journalist and author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian Long Read, California Sunday, Slate, and NPR, among many others. For seven years, she was a regular contributor to the international news radio show The World, a co-production of the BBC. Her articles have been featured on best-of lists in The Atlantic, NPR and Rolling Stone, and have been optioned for film by major studios. She is the author of an essay collection and a novel, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and has taught writing at Yale University. Simone is the recipient of a Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, the Andrew Berends Film Fellowship, a NYSCA/NYFA Film Fellowship, and a Mountainfilm Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. Black Snow is her first film.
Born in Uzbekistan in 1974, now based in Turkey. In 2010 took a degree in documentary filmmaking at the Marina Razbezhkina Film School in Moscow. In 2012 he was one of the directors of the award-winning documentary «Winter, Go Away!». His next films «Leninland», «Children 404» and «The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov» also won critical acclaim and screened at numerous festivals. His work focuses on human rights issues and social conflicts in contemporary Russia.
Bernard has graduated in Law and Political Science. Amongst other roles, he was a Professor, Director of the Art and Culture Department of the Institut Français du Portugal; responsible for the organization of the French Film Festival in Porto, co-founder of the Alliance Française de Porto (Board member), collaborator with Jean-Loup Passek in the creation, and later in the management of the Melgaço Film Museum, Executive Producer of the film En une poignée de mains amies by Jean Rouch and Manoel de Oliveira.
Founding member and vice-president of the Mozambican Association of Filmmakers, created in 2003, Camilo de Sousa was born in Lourenço Marques on May 29, 1953, where he completed his secondary studies. In 1968, he began to become interested in photography, working in Graphic Arts and, later, as a photographic reporter and editor for the daily “O Jornal” published in the then city of Lourenço Marques. In 1972 he took refuge in Belgium, where he obtained political refugee status with the United Nations (UNHCR). In 1973 he left for Tanzania and joined the Mozambique Liberation Front, participating in the fight for Mozambique's independence. After the proclamation of National Independence in 1975, he worked on several social and communication projects in the Province of Cabo Delgado, creating the first Mozambican network of popular information correspondents and taking mobile cinema to all districts and locations in this province. In 1980, he joined the National Cinema Institute, where he worked until 1991 as director, editor, production director, producer and, finally, General Production Manager. In 1992, with other cinema and communication professionals, he created the first independent communication and image production cooperative, Coopimagem. In 2001, he joined Ébano Multimédia, where he has been working as producer and director. He has a hand in hundreds of film productions, as producer, director, director, first assistant. In the cinematographic productions that marked Mozambique, Camilo de Sousa has participated, for example, in the film “The Time of Leopards”, a fiction feature film co- produced by Mozambique and Yugoslavia. His mark is also present in the film “O Vento Sopra do Norte”, a fiction feature film by filmmaker José Cardoso.
Cecilia is considered to be one of the most transgressive filmmakers of her time. She grew up in the former Spanish colony of Fernando Pó, now Equatorial Guinea, where she began acting and directing school plays. After abandoning her studies in Engineering and later Economic Sciences, she managed to enroll at the Official Cinema School of Madrid, one of the most prominent centers at the time where the New Spanish Cinema was created. Bartolomé graduated in 1969 with Margarita and the Wolf, a school essay that became an almost revolutionary medium-length film at the time. Before this project, the director had already made her first short films within the institution, including Carmen de Carabanchel (1965) or Plan Jack Cero Tres (1967), with a screenplay co-written with Gonzalo Suárez. Years later, in 1978, she directed her first feature film Let’s Go, Bárbara!, a version of the film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974). This work was considered by critics to be the first feminist film in the history of Spanish cinema, where Bartolomé particularly focused on the liberation of Spanish women. The critical content of her work, where she publicly exposed the difficulties of women in society at the time, provoked censorship of her work by the Franco regime. In 1981 she co-directed with her brother After…, a political documentary divided into two parts (You Can't Be Left Alone and Atado and Bien Atado, respectively), censored, according to Bartolomé, for political reasons. At the end of the 90s she directed Far from Africa (1996), a work again written in collaboration with her brother, where the director from Alicante narrates in an autobiographical way her childhood in the former Spanish colony. In 2005, she created a documentary chapter for the television series Cuéntame Como Foi, entitled Especial Carrero Blanco: the beginning of the end, which she claims to be one of the most interesting projects of her career. Bartolomé received the Women of Cinema award in 2012, awarded by the Gijón International Film Festival. Two years later, she received the Gold Medal for merit in the Fine Arts Academy of Spain. Finally, in 2018, she received the special prize from the Audiovisual Academy of Valencia.
Chema Gagino (Galicia, 1964) is actor and dubbing director since 1985, he lends his voice to actors such as Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy and Jerry Lewis. He has worked for five years at Radio Nacional, SER chain and Radio Galega, where he directs several creative programs. He writes the scripts for his first short films and begins to direct his first short films: “Afonía”, “Isolina del Caurel”, or “El Elegido” are films with awards at different film festivals. He writes scripts for television series such as “Gran Reserva”, “Las leys de celavella”, “Libro de Familia”, “Mareas Vivas” and “Terra de Miranda”. He also directs and produces Mareas Vivas, Terra de Miranda, and Caseros for TVG. In 2010 he directed the Xacobeo audiovisual exhibition, with animation and 3D integration pieces. Currently, he teaches script interpretation and directing classes at the Voz Audiovisual Fiction School and directs his first TV movie: “All Saints.” In 2016 he founded RECREA FILMS, a film production company with which he produced, among others, the feature film A VIRXE ROXA, with numerous national and international awards. He is currently in production with two feature films.
Director Christian Als has worked as a reportage photographer and filmmaker worldwide for leading Danish and international newspapers with a particular focus on wars and disasters, but has increasingly focused on long term projects at the edge of the global media agenda. Christian Als is an experienced and awarded photo journalist. This is his debut as feature-lenght documentary director.
After studying at the European Film College in Denmark, Clara Trischler (*15.02.1986) lived in Israel for a year, where, in addition to her work at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Documentation Archive, she collaborated on films and film festivals and wrote articles about everyday life in Jerusalem. After several film and festival jobs in Berlin and New York, she completed screenwriting studies at the Vienna Film Academy and the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte Buenos Aires, rediscovering her love for documentary film (which began with Hi8 camera experiments as a teenager). This led her to Berlin, where she studied documentary directing at the Konrad Wolf Film University in Babelsberg. She lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.
Catarina Mourão studied Music, Law and Film in Bristol and Edinburgh. In 1998 she founded AporDOC, Portuguese Documentary Association. Since 1998 she has been teaching Film and Documentary in many BA and MA courses. With Catarina Alves Costa she started Laranja Azul in 2000, an independent production company for creative documentary and visual arts in Lisbon where she has directed many awarded films. In 2016 she obtained her PhD in Film by the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD film “A Toca do Lobo” (The Wolf’s Lair) was released theatrically all over Portugal and premiered at Rotterdam Int. Film Festival. Her main areas of research are creative documentary; realism; memory, dream and archives. She is currently teaching film at the MA of Arts and Multimedia at Lisbon’s Fine Art School.
Catarina Laranjeiro (1983) is a visual anthropologist holding a Ph.D. in Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship. In the last ten years, she has researched the relationship between cinema and cosmological images during the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau, also part of her master thesis short film “Pabia di Aos” (2013). At the same time, she led and participated in several projects interlacing anthropology, cinema, and visual arts. Currently, she is conducting a six-year research project about vernacular film production in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and their diasporas in Europe.
Daniel Barroca (1976) works in the intersection between fine arts, film and historical anthropology. His current Ph.D. research is focused on the afterlives of war images in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau. He is the author of expanded cinema installations like Soldier Playing with Dead Lizard (2008) and … a hazy and confusing landscape (2009). He was a resident artist at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; and Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York.
Coordenadora Nacional do Plano Nacional de Cinema, na Direção-Geral da Educação (Lisboa), desde 2014. Doutoramento em Letras - Ramo de Estudos de Cultura, Especialidade Estudos Norte- Americanos - Estudos Fílmicos (Universidade de Lisboa). Mestrado em História de Arte (FCSH- Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Licenciatura em História pela Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (FLUL – Universidade de Lisboa). Trabalha na Direção-Geral da Educação (DGE) desde 2014. Atividade docente entre 1983 e 2014. Investigadora integrada no Grupo de Investigação, Media e mediações culturais (CEMRI- Universidade Aberta). Jurada nos Concursos do Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (ICA), membro de Júri em projetos de investigação académica de Mestrado e Doutoramento e membro de Júri em diversos Festivais de Cinema. Membro da Academia Portuguesa de Cinema. Integra diversas Comissões Científicas e Comissões de Honra na área do cinema e audiovisual. Coordena a equipa de produção da Coleção de Dossiês Pedagógicos do PNC. Cocoordena o grupo Cinema e Educação na Associação de Investigadores de Imagem em Movimento (AIM). Integra a Comissão Pedagógica da Associação de Professores de História (APH) e a equipa de trabalho do Plano Nacional das Artes. Tem publicado o seu doutoramento, A Cruz, o Gládio e a Espada: representações da História no cinema de Cecil B. DeMille (2015). Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.
Born in Turkey, Kaftan completed a B.A. in Philosophy at Bosphorus University in Istanbul. She completed her M.A in Film and Video at York University, Toronto (Canada) in 2002. Her first documentary, Faultlines, investigates the aftermath of the earthquake which hit Turkey in 1999. Kaftan then wrote and directed Vendetta Song (2005) about her personal journey into the killing of her aunt in a small village in Turkey, winning several awards. Eylem completed her first feature film, called Hive in 2020. Eylem recently finished her new documentary, A Day, 365 Hours, following two young girls who seek justice against their abusive fathers. Its world premiere was at 29th Sarajevo Film Festival. In addition to making films, Kaftan is secretary general of Directors Guild of Turkey and coordinator and instructor for film directing at Beyoğlu Cinema Academy. Kaftan also does jury duty at many important festivals including membership of Oscar committee of Turkey which selects Turkey’s Oscar candidate.
Lecturer and artist-researcher at the interface of performance and visual arts, seeking to represent a figurative space-time, combining sound and visual narratives with unusual places, and fostering audio-visual processes that move between past and present, and between individual and collective memory. He holds a PhD in Art Studies - Arts/Drama and Performance Studies from the University of Coimbra, a Post-Doctorate in Religion Studies from the Portuguese Catholic University and a Post-Doctorate in Sound and Visual Sociology from the University of Porto. He is an Invited Lecturer at the Department of Arts, Design and Humanities of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo and an Expert Evaluator at EIT Culture & Creativity, a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). He is a researcher at the Research Institute in Design, Media and Culture (ID+) at the Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave and at AO NORTE. He is also an affiliated scholar of the Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory (SELMA) at the University of Turku (Finland) and an affiliated researcher of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). He is the author of the books “The Performativity of Memory in Religious Places” (UCP Editora, 2024) and “Notebook of Memory Representations” (Pensamento Voador, 2022), and the editor of the book “Performativity and the Representation of Memory: Resignification, Appropriation, and Embodiment” (IGI Global, 2024). He is also the author of several academic articles on theatre and performance studies, research methodologies through artistic practice, memory studies, sociology of art, art and cultural studies, religious studies, and art and technology. He has presented his work in museums, concert halls, public spaces and events in Portugal, Austria, Spain, Finland, Brazil, Mexico and South Korea.
Isabel Noronha is the daughter of a Goan father and a Mozambican mother. Graduated in Clinical Psychology and Counseling from the Instituto Superior Politécnico Universitário (ISPU) and Master in Mental Health and Social Clinic from the University of León, in Spain, she studied doctorate courses in Anthropology at Unicamp. She is recognized as a fundamental name in Mozambican cinema, having joined the National Cinema Institute in 1984. He was a Founding Member of the first Independent Video Cooperative (Coopimagem) and the Mozambican Association of Filmmakers. He directed several films, including the beautiful Ngwenya, the crocodile, about the painter Malagantana, distinguished by the Milan Festival as the best documentary in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Since 2008, with Vivian Altman (animation director), he has been producing films that mix documentary and animation, which makes it possible to approach problematic themes, without showing the characters' faces.
Irina Trocan is a Film Studies Lecturer at the National University of Theatre and Cinema in Bucharest (UNATC) and freelances as a film critic, having contributed to Cineaste, Sight & Sound, photogénie, desistfilm. Irina balances academic and cinephile writing, having edited an anthology of documentary theory, The reality of fiction, the fiction of the real (Hecate Press, 2018, together with Andra Petrescu) and Romanian Cinema Inside Out – Insights on Film Culture, Industry and Politics 1912-2019 (Romanian Cultural Institute Press, 2019) and completing research as Fulbright and New Europe College fellow. Her latest volume is Audiovisual opposition: critical thinking in video essays and essay cinema (Idea Design & Print, 2020). Between 2011-2016, she programmed short films for the NexT International Film Festival.
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.
PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela, expert in Documentary Film, professor of Higher Education, journalist, filmmaker and cultural programmer. Throughout the years, he has taught courses in Cinema and Communication Sciences in several higher education establishments, namely the University of Porto, Catholic University and Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espetáculo (ESMAE) of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. As a journalist he worked in the Press, Radio and Television, namely for RTP, where he spent 25 years. He made several documentaries, among others, about General Humberto Delgado, Mário Cláudio, Martins Sarmento, Miguel Torga, Eugénio de Andrade, Nadir Afonso, Teixeira Gomes and Fernando Lanhas. He also wrote numerous articles and made hundreds of journalistic pieces covering a wide variety of stories. Awarded and distinguished several times in different fields, namely with the Gazeta de Televisão of the Clube de Jornalistas and the Special Prize of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Coordinator of the blog Narrativas do Real. He regularly integrates national and international film festival juries. Programmer responsible for the Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia area of Porto 2001 – European Capital of Culture, as well as the cycle of Photography and Documentary Cinema Images of Imagined Real from the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, he was an independent MP elected by the Left Bloc and vice-president of the Culture, Media and Youth Commission of Parliament between 2015 and 2018. He is currently a professor at the University of Maia.
José Filipe Costa has written and directed several short films and documentaries, including Prazer, Camaradas! (2019), Linha Vermelha (2011), Entre Muros (2002) and Senhorinha (1999). His films have been presented at film festivals such as Locarno Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, HotDocs, Cinéma du Réel, Viennale, PlanetaDoc, DocLisboa, IndieLisboa, among others, and have been shown on various television channels such as RTP, Futura-Brasil and ZDF-Arte and on numerous streaming platforms. He has written scripts for films by directors such as Pedro Pinho, Filipa Reis and João Miller (Légua, 2023). He is the author of the book O cinema ao poder! (2002/2014). He has lectured at several universities, including IADE, ESAD, Universidade Lusófona (Master DocNomads, Documentary Film Directing Erasmus Mundus). He was a visiting professor at the Universida do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. He holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, London.
José Luis Alcaine Bartolomé begins his adventures in the sound world. His main objective was always to demonstrate the importance of sound narrative within audiovisual, providing and demanding for each of his projects a personality consistent with the cinematographic language used. It is not just about exploring the technical side of sound, but also its capacity as a language for transmitting sensations, ideas and emotions beyond the subconscious. He always wanted to investigate and get to know everything a story wants to convey, be it a film script, a song, a play, to be able to identify and fully engage with it by designing and creating its own auditory language and allowing solid creativity to contribute with its enormous potential for the development of work. Sound designer and editor of fiction and documentary feature films, theatrical and musical sound producer. He founded, together with other professionals with years of experience in the sector, the sound brand Blacktone Studio, one of the most important sound studios in Madrid. José is currently working on the digitization of the sound archive and creation of the sound library for Cecilia Bartolomé's films.
Graduated in Philosophy from the University of Porto (1976), PhD in Cine Vídeo from the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (1989), master’s degree in Multimedia Educational Communication from the Open University of Portugal (1993) and doctorate in Social Sciences - Anthropology from the University Open of Portugal (1998). Former professor at the Open University of Portugal. He has vast experience in the field of Anthropology, with an emphasis on Visual Anthropology, working mainly on the following themes: visual anthropology, digital anthropology, cinema, research methods in anthropology, interculturality and Afro-Atlantic culture. Fieldwork undertaken in Portugal, Cape Verde, Brazil, Argentina and Cuba. He coordinated the International Network of Scientific Cooperation Images of Culture / Image Culture. Visiting professor at Mackenzie University (Education, Art and History of Culture), UECE, UCDJB, University of Murcia - Spain (ERASMUS) and University of Savoie - France, University of S. Paulo. Researcher at GI - Media and cultural mediations - CEMRI: Open University. Former Visiting professor at UFG - Faculty of Visual Arts 2016-2019. Currently preparing a work project - Teaching, Research and Extension at the Federal University of Maranhão. José coordinates the Group of Studies in Cinema and Digital Narratives of AO NORTE - Association of Animation and Audiovisual Production.
Jusciele Oliveira graduated in Vernacular Literature (UFBA, 2006), with a specialization in Teaching Methodology of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture and Higher Education Teaching (2010). Master in Literature and Culture from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA, 2013), with research on the film Nha fala (2002) by Flora Gomes. PhD in Communication, Culture and Arts from the Center for Research in Arts and Communication at the University of Algarve (UAlg), in Portugal (2018), with research from CAPES/Brazil, investigating the fictional work of filmmaker Flora Gomes. She co-edited the e-book Contemporary African Cinemas: Critical Approaches (Sesc, 2020). Currently, she is a collaborating researcher at the Center for Research in Arts and Communication (CIAC / UAlg) and a researcher at the Film Analysis Laboratory (Facom / UFBA), where she develops research on cinematographic genres in African cinemas, notably musicals and comedies. She has experience in African cultures and cinemas, topics on which she has published in several journals in Brazil and abroad.
Kateryna Tiuri is an experienced director with a diverse portfolio of over 200 projects, including commercials and music videos. Her works exude a particularly warm and colorful atmosphere. Kate was born and lived by the sea for a long time, and this hedonistic mood can be felt in all her works. Even the films she created after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine look light and are enjoyed by the youngest viewers. In February 2023, Kateryna completed her maiden full-length documentary, which follows the stories of 17 Ukrainian children from different parts of Ukraine guiding adults on how to continue living during wartime when strength is depleted. The film was released in February 2024. In 2023, Kateryna also received a grant for education at the Prague Film School, specializing in documentary directing. In May 2024, Kate obtained the diploma "Documentary Director"
Lisabete graduated in Business Administration (1988), Masters in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (1992) and PhD in Anthropology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma of México (2000). Post-doctorate in Anthropology from UFSC (2008) and Post-doctorate in Anthropology from the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona. She is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Coordinator of NAVIS Visual Anthropology Center, Research Directory/. She directed the following films: No Mato Das Mangabeiras, Seu Pernambuco, Mozambican Cinema in Motion, Sila, Mulher Cangaceira, Master Zorro, among others. Member of the Commission for the Preparation and Evaluation of the Audiovisual Production Classification Roadmap/CAPES. Member of the ANPOCS Image and Sound Commission in the 2001- 2002 administrations and of the ABA Visual Anthropology GT (2009-2010) and (2011- 2012). She participated in the Mais Cultura Program (2015-2019) and the preparation of the UFRN Culture Plan (2015-2019). President of the CAV ABA Visual Anthropology Committee 2019/2020). Participation in the AMLAT NETWORK (Thematic Network for Scientific Cooperation Communication, Citizenship, Education and Integration in Latin America – PROSUL. MCT/CNPq N 11/2008). Published work: Praça XV space and sociability; Anthropology and Image; Cities and their Images. Organized Dossier on Cinema (BAGOAS Magazine). She has experience in the field of Anthropology, with an emphasis on Urban and Audiovisual Anthropology, working mainly on the following themes: cities, spaces, memories, narratives, cinema, African cinema and the use of image.
Luiz Joaquim (1970) é autor dos livros Celso Marconi: o senhor do tempo (2020, CEPE) e Cinema brasileiro nos jornais (2018, Ed. Massangana), além de artigos sobre cinema em diversas publicações no Brasil e no exterior. É editor do site cinemaescrito.com, criado em 2007. Dirigiu os curtas-metragens Eiffel (2008) e O homem dela (2010). É jornalista, mestre em comunicação e atuou como repórter e crítico de cinema no Jornal do Commercio (Recife, 1997-2001) e na Folha de Pernambuco (2004-2016), tendo ainda chefiado o Cinema da Fundação Joaquim Nabuco entre 2001 e 2017 além do bacharelado em Cinema e Audiovisual da Uniaeso (2017-2021), onde atuou até 2024. Foi vice-presidente da Abraccine (2019-2021), e esteve em 2021 como chefe de Audiovisual, Arte e Tecnologia da Prefeitura do Recife; atuando ainda, em 2022, como gestor do Museu da Imagem e do Som de Pernambuco (Mispe) e curador do Cinema São Luiz (Recife). Desde maio de 2023 responde pela coordenação do Cinema da Fundação Joaquim Nabuco e pela Cinemateca Pernambucana Jota Soares, da Fundaj (Recife, Brasil).
Manoela dos Anjos Afonso Rodrigues: PhD in Arts from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Professor of the Graduate Program in Art and Visual Culture and of the Bachelor of Visual Arts undergraduate course at the Faculty of Visual Arts at the Federal University of Goiás (FAV/UFG). She coordinates and develops investigations in the line of research in Artistic Poetics and Creative Processes, with an emphasis on Autobiographical Research in Art. She is the founding leader of the research group Nucleus of Autobiographical Artistic Practices – NuPAA / UFG / CNPq. She was President of the National Association of Researchers in Visual Arts (ANPAP) in the biennium 2019/2020, of which she has been an affiliated member of the Artistic Poetic Committee since 2010. She has been a member of the Brazilian Association of Oral History (ABHO) since 2018. Her artistic, pedagogical and investigative practices are guided by the poetics of (self)location that articulate notions of space, place, territory, displacement and autobiogeography.
Manuela Matos Monteiro tem formação em Filosofia e Psicologia sendo co-autora de livros de Psicossociologia, Psicologia e autora de livros de Pedagogia, Metodologia de Projeto entre outros (Porto Editora). Dirigiu durante anos a revista 2:PONTOS e foi coordenadora do site NetProf. Dedica-se à fotografia há vários anos, participando com os seus trabalhos em exposições colectivas e individuais. O seu trabalho tem sido reconhecido através de prémios obtidos em diversos concursos de fotografia, de que se destaca o 1º prémio no concurso internacional “La femme et la vigne”. Tem trabalhos publicados em livros e revistas. De entre as diferentes intervenções pode-se destacar o trabalho em coautoria.
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.
Maria Mire (Maputo, 1979). She lives and works in Lisbon. The artistic and research work she develops is mainly focused on issues of the perception of moving images. PhD in Art and Design from FBAUP in 2016. She is a professor and co-head of the Cinema/Moving Image Department at Ar.Co., in Lisbon. She also collaborates on the PhD in Media and Communication Arts at ULHT, as well as on the Master's in Sound and Image Arts at ESAD.CR. She has been part of several collaborative artistic projects, including Coletivo Embankment, Plataforma Ma or Patê Filmes. She has developed several collaborative critical and artistic speculation projects with Aida Castro. She made the film “Parto sem Dor”, an imagined conversation with Cesina Bermudes.
Realizadora de cinema, o trabalho de Melanie Pereira gravita em torno de duas temáticas centrais, a emigração portuguesa e a luta pelos direitos das mulheres. As suas primeiras obras inserem-se ao que chama de Ciclo da Emigração e abordam fragmentos migratórios através de observações, memórias, tempos e arquivos. Ativista feminista, desenvolve ainda várias investigações e trabalhos artísticos em torno de cinema e mulheres, em especial no contexto português. Em 2023, foi uma das realizadoras portuguesas emergentes escolhidas para integrar o programa The Factory da Quinzena dos Realizadores de Cannes. Em outubro do mesmo ano, a sua primeira longa-metragem As Melusinas à margem do rio é triplamente premiada no Doclisboa, entre os quais com o Prémio HBO Max para Melhor Filme da Competição Portuguesa.
Michelle Keserwany is the sister of Noel Keserwany and they are Lebanese musicians, writers, and filmmakers. The sisters are known for their satirical music videos that criticize the Lebanese corrupt political system. Ever since Michelle co-wrote Capernaum with director Nadine Labaki (Academy Award nominee, winner of the Prix du Jury in Cannes 2018 as well as Best Script Award at Stockholm IFF), they started their own film projects, including the political documentary Slow Burn, a co-production between France and Lebanon, produced by Special Touch Studios and supported by the CNC. Between 2019 and 2021, they both received grants from the French Institute to reside at La Cite des Arts in Paris and work on their film projects. They live between Beirut and Paris. Noel is currently writing her first fiction film "Un An" and developing an animated short film Seven Mountains and Seven Seas, grantee of the DFI Production Fund, and produced by Dewberries Films. Michelle is currently developing her first animated feature film "Ouzkourini", produced by Special Touch Studios. In 2021, she received the CNC's Aide au Parcours d’Auteur grant, to develop her first fiction feature film "Amara", a satirical political drama that takes place in Beirut. The sisters' debut short fiction film "Les Chenilles" was written by Michelle, and directed by her and Noel, who also plays one of the lead roles in it. The film is co-produced by La Biennale de Lyon and Dewberries Films.
Attended the Berlinale Forum for the fourth time with his films (Into Thin Air 2011, Blames and Flames 2012, As I Lay Dying 2020, Subtotals 2022). Currently considered as one of the most acclaimed documentary filmmakers of Iranian cinema. Born September 1978, Graduated MA in theater study from the Tehran university of Fine Arts. He started his art career as a poet and translator and published half a dozen books. As a documentary filmmaker he has made some awarded films and screened in more than 70 national and international film Festivals. His new film Hollow is part of “Iran: A Sense of Place”, a collective Project initiated and supervised by Wim Wenders, premiered at CPH: DOX, shown in Beldocs, Sheffield, DMZDOcs,.. still moving on to film events across the world. Farzad has been a PhD student at the Film Factory headed by legendary Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr. He also acted as jury member in several international film festivals like CPH: DOX, Jihlava, Plzen, DokuBaku, Cinema-verite, Prague Festival of Iranian Films.... Farzad is now working on his first debut feature titled: “A Gaze Long into Abyss”, to be produced by Czech producer Radovan Sibert of Pink Production.
Born in Lisbon, 1990 and raised in Pontinha (suburbs). Graduated in Sound and Image from ESAD.CR and master from the National Film School (ESTC) and HEAD – Genève. In 2018 directs his first film BOSTOFRIO, OÙ LE CIEL REJOINT LA TERRE, multi-awarded and shown in more than 40 international film festivals around the world. In 2019 it was acclaimed by the critic's as “top 10 films of the year” for Jornal Público. BOSTOFRIO reached more than a million spectators globally (festivals, TVs, cinemas, streaming, etc). PÉRIPHÉRIQUE NORD premieres at Visions du Réel ’22. SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN premieres at Directors’ Fortnight.
Piero Usberti is Italian-French, born in 1992 in Poggibonsi (Italy). After studying philosophy at Turin University, he turned to directing. He also occasionally acts, notably in films by his brother, Tommaso Usberti.
Raquel Marques (Porto, 1979). Filmmaker, specialized in film education and in pedagogy of images with a feminist perspective. She is part of the directive team of Drac Màgic, a cooperative dedicated to the study, research and divulgation of cinema and audiovisual culture (Barcelona). Degree of Communication Sciences / Cinema (FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Master in Documentary of Creation (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).
Raquel Schefer is a researcher, director, programmer and Associate Professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. With a PhD in Cinematographic and Audiovisual Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, she has a master's degree in Documentary Cinema from the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires and a degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She published the work El Autorretrato en el Documental, as well as several book chapters and articles. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes, a professor at the Universities Paris Est — Marne-la-Vallée, Rennes 2, at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires, at the Universidad de la Comunicación, in Mexico City, and at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, as well as a guest researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was an FCT postdoctoral fellow at CEC / University of Lisbon, IHC / Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of the Western Cape. She is co-editor of the film theory and history magazine La Furia Umana.
Sarvnaz Alambeigi is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist best known for documentary filmmaking and painting. She graduated from Graphic Art School and studied painting at the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. She received film training from 2013 to 2018 at Documentary Campus Masterschool and Danish Film School. In 2013, she founded her own film company, Rabison Art. Alambeigi's most notable work is “1001 Nights Apart”, a documentary released in 2022 in Germany that won the VFF Documentary Film Production Award at DOK.fest Munich. It was shown in cinemas across Germany in 2022, as well as on TV channels such as Arte, SVT, TVO and Avrotros. She is currently a member of Film Fatales, The European Women's Audiovisual Network and the Association of Iranian Documentary Cinema Directors.
Degree in Philosophy (University of Porto); secondary school teacher (1979-88). Professional journalist since 1988, with a career in O Primeiro de Janeiro (1988-89) and PÚBLICO (since 1989); collaborator at O Comércio do Porto, Expresso and Grande Reportagem; co-founder of the magazines Cinema Novo and A Grande Ilusão. Author of the books Porto in the History of Cinema (2002), Ao Correr do Tempo – Two Decades with Manoel de Oliveira (2008) and Serralves – 20 Years and Other Stories (2009). Author of the documentary Manoel de Oliveira, His Case (2007). Co-author of the Dictionary of Portuense Personalities of the 20th Century (2001) and As Casas da Música no Porto – Vols. I, II and III (2009-2011).
Co-Director Sofie Husum Johannesen has been a core part of the Elk Films producer team for the past 8 years where she has previously worked as a producer, line producer and project manager on a number of successful documentaries such as "See me as I am" (2021), "The Lost Leonardo" (2021), "The Great Game" (2018) amongst others. This is her first film as a co-director. Sofie has has a background from visual anthropology at Aarhus University/Akershus University.
After years of working for various international networks, in 2014 I decided to focus on projects that I felt were mine, moving from a journalistic approach to more artistic storytelling. I first made "Bare-Handed", a short documentary published by The Guardian, and then, in 2021, "War is over" (73'), which premiered at the Roma International Film Festival 2021. Reviewed as "a cinematic poem about the universal resilience of the human spirit", "War is over" was awarded at the Nastri d'Argento 2022 - Italian Critics' National Award.
Tânia Dinis (Vila Nova de Famalicão, 1983). She holds a Master's degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices from FBAUP. Her work crosses different perspectives and artistic expressions, such as photography, performance art, cinema or relational aesthetics. This research is based on investigation and collection in family archives, personal or otherwise, as well as other devices, exploring the idea of image as an experience of the ephemerality of time and memory, also using other records of the real image. She has taken part in several group exhibitions. She is represented in the contemporary art collection of Porto City Council.
Tiago Baptista is director of the National Archive of Moving Images, the conservation center of the Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museum of Cinema. He has a PhD in Film and Screen Media from the University of London (Birkbeck College) and is an integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History-NOVA FCSH. He will present the theme Revolution, Archive and History - Panorama on the different types of images about the 1974 Revolution existing in the Cinemateca Portuguesa archive: amateur films, professional productions, unfinished raw films. History and perspectives of appropriation cinema (of archive images). Critical reuse of archive images, or cinema as a historian of the Revolution.
Truls Lie has been the editor-in-chief of Modern Times Review since 2015. He has a background as newspaper and magazine editor for more than 25 years. He has an education in philosophy and information technology, from Oslo, San Francisco and New York. Lie is also the editor of NY TID, a 100 pages Norwegian quarterly book magazine. His background is philosophy & media, and he makes documentaries as filmmaker. Truls was born in Norway, but is currently living in Sicily.
