Education
2020-2022 — MA in Audiovisual Arts (Film), KASK School of Arts, graduated with distinction
2015-2018 — BA in Film Directing and Editing, Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema
Additional Training
2025 — DocuDojo Lynne Sachs Masterclass SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT + WORK METHODS
2024 — Experimental Visual Arts Laboratory, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea
2022–2023 — Advanced Training Course in Film and Television Directing, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian & Universidade Católica Portuguesa (mentors: Atom Egoyan, Lucrecia Martel, Céline Sciamma)
2021 — DIY Filmmaking on Film (16mm) workshop, Breedbeeld Antwerpen & LABOBxL, Brussels
2014-2015 — Cinema Cent Ans de Jeunesse, Cinémathèque française (Paris), Associação Filhos de Lumière (Escola Secundária de Camões, Lisbon)
Teaching Positions
Ongoing — Teacher at Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual (Video Lab I, Introduction to Shooting)
Ongoing — Teacher at ETIC Algarve (Introduction to Cinema and Project Development)
Ongoing — Film Workshop Facilitator, Está do Aço (Social Inclusion Project)
2024-2025 — Intervening filmmaker in the pedagogical project Cinéma Cent Ans de Jeunesse, with Associação Os Filhos de Lumière
2024 — Invited filmmaker, Cinema class by Professor Pedro Florêncio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2023 — Invited filmmaker, cinema workshop by Salomón Pérez, Universidad César Vallejo, Peru
Current / Upcoming Projects
Still—moving, Documentary / experimental feature
Markets & Labs:
2025 — Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
2026 — IndieLisboa Lab
2026 — FIDLab (Doc Alliance Network of Markets Label)
Filmography (director)
2024 — Happiness in a Pot, short film, 19’
2024 — Bonjour Eric, short film, 4’
2023 — Cosas bonitas y un par de tragedias, short film, 12’
2020 — Meine Liebe, short film, 6’
2018 — Verniz, short film, 14’
Grants, Awards & Residencies
2024 — RISCO visual arts residency, Associação Alfaia, Loulé
2023 — GDA Award for project in development Happiness in a Pot, IndieLisboa Industry
2022–2023 — Fellowship and Residency, Gulbenkian Foundation & Escola das Artes
2022 — DAFilms Award for project in development Lettre à Eric Pauwels, Doclisboa Nebulae Industry
2022 — Dear Doc Fellowship, Doc’s Kingdom International Seminar on Documentary Cinema
2020 — Best Portuguese Short Film Award for Meine Liebe, IndieLisboa
2020–2022 — Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian scholarship for arts studies abroad
Exhibitions
2024 — FILLING TANKS WITH GHOSTS, group exhibition curated by Miguel Cheta, Faro
2024 — EM OBRAS, group exhibition, Zaratan, Lisbon
2024 — RISCO, duo exhibition with Luísa Ramires, Galeria Praça do Mar / Galerias Municipais de Loulé, Quarteira
Writing
2024–2025 — Au Hasard, Cinema, column for À Pala de Walsh
2022 — Au Hasard, Cinema: thoughts on the location of cinema in space and time, master thesis
Selected Film Editing Work
2023-2025 — Justa, feature film by Teresa Villaverde
2022–2024 — Intercontinental, feature film by Salomón Pérez
2022–2024 — Estou a sentir qualquer coisa, short film by Nuno Pimentel
2022–2024 — Untitled (trio of voices…), video installation by João Onofre
2019–2020 — Cabra Cega, short film by Tomás Paula Marques
2019–2020 — Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde?, short film by Teresa Villaverde
Other Cinema Related Work
2024–2025 — Assistant editor and data manager at Artificial Humors
Acting work in films by Leonardo Mouramateus, Teresa Villaverde, Salomé Lamas and Sandro Aguilar
Production assistant on A chuva acalanta a dor by Leonardo Mouramateus
Assistant editor on Self Destructive Boys by Marco Leão and André Santos