Her work takes everyday objects as a starting point, exploring their historical, emotional, and cultural layers, offering an opportunity to step back from the constant stimulation of the attention economy and engage with the present, discovering depth in the banality that surrounds us.
Her short films have been selected at festivals and events such as: IndieLisboa and Curtas de Vila do Conde (Portugal), Premiers Plans Angers (France), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montreal (Canada), Lago Film Fest (Italy), ZINEBI (Spain), Alchemy Film and Moving Image (Scotland), Kasseler Dokfest (Germany), aCinema Space (USA), Beijing International Short Film Festival (China), and London Short Film Festival (UK). They have also been exhibited at venues such as Kunsthalle Münster (Germany), Museo Malba (Argentina), Palácio das Artes de Belo Horizonte (Brazil), and CAM Gulbenkian (Portugal). Her films have received recognition including the Best National Short Film award at IndieLisboa 2020.
Her most recent film work includes Happiness in a pot (2024) and Bonjour Eric (2024), the latter of which is currently available on DaFilms.
She’s edited short and feature films, among other formats, directed by Teresa Villaverde, Paula Tomás Marques, Nuno Pimentel, Salomón Pérez, João Onofre, among others.
She currently divides her time between several teaching activities (Ar.Co, ETIC Algarve, among others) and working on her first feature film, Still—moving, selected at Ji.hlava New Visions Forum Europe (Czech Republic), IndieLisboa Lab (Portugal) and invited to the FIDLab (France) in the context of the Doc Alliance Network of Markets Label..
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