The workshop will seek to raise awareness, challenge and stimulate, creatively, technically and aesthetically, all participants to the universe of documentary creation, through the execution of filmic exercises, their visualization, and their joint discussion.
Using the mobile phone as an instrument for recording image and sound, the aim is to demystify the use of everyday devices in audiovisual production and simultaneously stimulate the trainees' creativity, providing them with skills on how to be able to tell their stories and take full advantage of a piece of equipment they usually carry in their pocket.
Portuguese film producer and director at Metafilmes; coordinator of the educational project ''O Cinema Somos Nós'', by Associação Cultural Periferias, in Marvão; member of the Filmgeographies platform; part of the selection and programming committee of the Film Festival of the American Association of Geographers and the selection and programming committee of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). With an impressive curriculum, Vítor Hugo Costa has produced and directed documentaries that have been shown at international film festivals, with commercial exhibition in theaters, national and international broadcast and with VOD distribution on national platforms. He also has international experience as a trainer in the production of short films using smartphones in workshops at Queen Mary University of London, Roehampton University, the American Association of Geographers and also in educational projects with young people in Cairo.
