Lisbon, 1971. He began working in cinema from an early age. He was production assistant or director in several film productions in countries such as Portugal, France and Spain. "Afirma Pereira" by Roberto Faenza with Marcello Mastroianni, stands out. He has made several short films of different genres: fiction, animation and documentary. He directed four feature-length documentaries. All of his films have been screened at national and international festivals. He made tv commercials for national and international brands in different European markets. He is currently completing his PhD in Communication Sciences, at Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa with the thesis "Cinema and Objects". Three films are part of the thesis: Objects Entre Nós, Casa Encantada and Sacavém.

Is a film director and professor. He founded the Lucky Star Cineclube de Braga and teaches History of Cinema and Filmmaking at Cascais School of Arts & His last films were: LONGE (presented at the official selection of Locarno 2016) and Os Conselhos da Noite (released this year) . Guerra, co-directed with Marta Ramos, has occupied them for the past

Was born in Lisbon, in 1984, and graduated in Architecture in the same city. She has collaborated, for the last 10 years, in the production, editing and directing of independent films. She also devotes her body and soul to singing, an artistic expression she has recorded in close cooperation with José Oliveira.

Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London. He has written and directed several short films, including A Rua (2008), Chapa 23 (2006), Domingo (2005) and the documentaries Prazer, Camaradas! (2019), Linha Vermelha (2011), Entre Muros (2002) present at international film festivals, such as the Locarno Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Viennale, Cinéma du Réel, PlanetaDoc, Fórumdoc.bh, Fidé Brasil, Festival OF Short films from Rio de Janeiro, IndieLisboa, short films from Vila do Conde, among others, and with screenings on several television channels such as RTP, Futura-Brasil and ZDF-Arte. He was screenwriter and director of the popular science series Stories of Life on Earth (2008). He was a visiting professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and has taught at IADE, ETIC, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and in the course DocNomads, Documentary Film Directing Erasmus Mundus.

Claudia Varejão was born in Porto and studied at the Creativity and Artistic Creation Program of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in partnership with the German Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin and the São Paulo International Film Acadamy. She also studied Photography at AR.CO in Lisbon. Cláudia’s films have been selected for and awarded at the most prestigious film festivals, including Locarno, Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, Cinema du Reel, Karlovy Vary, Art of the Real - Lincoln Center, among many others. Besides her work as a filmmaker, she developed a career as a photographer and she’s a guest professor at AR.CO and the Catholic University of Porto. Her work, whether in film, photography, documentary or fiction, is based on its proximity to the people portrayed.

Studied Music, Law and Film (MA Bristol University). In 1998 I was a founder of Apordoc, Portuguese Documentary Association and started teaching Film and Documentary in 2000. In 2000 with another filmmaker (Catarina Alves Costa) we started Laranja Azul, an independent production company for creative documentary and visual arts in Lisbon.

Rui Esperança was born in Viana do Castelo in 1991. Graduated in Film by the National Theatre and Film School in Lisbon, he is the author of a body of work that most recently includes “The Outsiders” (IndieLisboa; 2019), “18” (Curtas Vila do Conde; 2019), among others. He was assistant director to Joaquim Sapinho between 2013 and 2015 and a member of the YEAD Project (Young European Cultural Audience Development) that took place between 2016 and 2019.

Ana Maria Gomes is a Franco-Portuguese artist and filmmaker, born in 1982 in France. She lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris and went on to further study at Le Fresnoy, specializing in video art. Gomes’s work today focuses on the role of fiction in the construction of personal identities; her main artistic interest revolves around her inner circle and family in particular. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and screened in international festivals (Hors Piste at the Centre Pompidou, Gaîté Lyrique, Jeu de Paume, Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris, French and Portuguese Cinemathèque, etc.), it has received support from artistic institutions including the G.R.E.C, the Gulbenkian Foundation, SCAM, DRAC or the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, and it is part of public collections such as the French National Contemporary Art Fund Collection (FNAC), the National Bpi Catalogue (Images en Bibliothèques), the National French Library (BnF), the collection of the Casa de Velazquez.

Cláudia Ribeiro was born in 1990, in Guimarães, in the North of Portugal, and currently lives in Porto. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Film and a Master’s in Anthropology - Visual Cultures. Her work is focused mainly on the concepts of culture and identity, moved by a constant questioning of human behaviour, memory, representation, and the concept of reality. THE LIFE WE KNOW is her debut in documentary film, the result of 7 months of painstaking fieldwork in a small inland village in northern Portugal.

The Portuguese director has a degree in Psychology from the University of Lisbon. She studied cinema at ESTC, the Lisbon Theatre and Film School, and studied television at Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, having completed training in TV Production at the BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation. She was a director at SIC, Sociedade Independente de Comunicação, from 1992 to 2002, having left to dedicate herself to academic work. In 2002/2003, she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was an adviser for documentary programming at the RTP. She obtained her PhD in Contemporary History in March 2018, with a scholarship from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. She dedicates herself to writing and directing documentaries. She currently teaches at the ESCS – School of Communication and Media Studies, in Lisbon.