Media Production

Film director, cultural programmer, and professor in the fields of artistic creation, documentary and experimental film, Pedro SenNa Nunes has directed various projects – documentaries, fiction films and commercials – with the support of ICA/RTP. Co-artistic director of Vo’Arte and co-founder of Companhia Teatro Meridional, he consults and coordinates diverse cultural projects. He integrated the teams of Fragile, Unlimited and European Video Dance Heritage (EVDH). Co-directs the international festivals InShadow, InArt and InMotion – Cinema and Dance, and has programmed Olhares Frontais dos Encontros de Cinema de Viana for 18 years and collaborate with Festival Filmes do Homem. His artistic work has had an increasing focus on social practices through expanding dynamics between people with special needs and professional artists.

For 24 years, has been dedicated to pedagogical concerns, directing laboratories for documentary and fictional creation and experimentation. He teaches in the fields of film direction, multidisciplinary narratives and relationship between performance and technologies in ESTAL, IPA, SOU, c.e.m. and escreverescrever. He has taught a Master’s level programme in Documentary Film at ESMAE (Porto) for 8 years and has worked as a course coordinator in ETIC for 18 years.

Has co-created the Geração Soma project, backed by the PARTIS programme for social integration through artistic practices, from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Presently, he is a PhD student in performing arts and moving images at the University of Lisbon (UL), a GECAPA investigator in the experimental field of body and image articulations and is filming his new documentary project dedicated to the writer and teacher Jorge Listopad. Worked as stage director in various theatre, choreographic and performative projects, and was awarded numerous times for his cinematographic, photographic and multidisciplinary works, both in Portugal and abroad.

Is better known for consulting, creating and marketing products, services and content designed to help people and companies succeed in the digital world, with Internet businesses. He’s a straight to the point digital thinker, with a great passion for innovation, business models, marketing, content and brand strategies. With almost two decades of experience in digital businesses, has successfully helped a lot of brands like SAPO, SIC, and MEO, to succeed. As also been the first VoD content distributor in Portuguese TV operators, representing in Portugal studios like Paramount, Warner Bros., among others, for digital distribution. Enjoys a very good wine as well as a good script or touching poetry. Curious by nature, prepared to share insights but always ready to learn more and more in order to better understand the world.

Directed several short fiction films and documentaries that were shown at festivals worldwide and on television. Her last documentary, Gypsophila, won several awards including the Special Jury Award at the Torino Film Festival. The award-winning films Wounded and Many Days Has a Month had theatrical release. Her new works Ideal Woman and Gestures of Realism explore personal and film archive footage, researching the frontiers of audiovisual essay. Has taught research for documentary in ETIC- School of Innovation, Creation and Technology, film editing in ESTC- Lisbon Theatre and Film School, and was an invited lecturer on Audiovisual Essay at Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH NOVA). Works regularly as editor and script supervisor in Film and TV Projects. Her main interests are short stories and photography, as well as travelling and experiencing new places and cultures. Has shooting experience in Portugal, Spain, Mozambique, Mexico and Venezuela.

Born in Tomar, Portugal and grew up in Mozambique. Studied Photography, Image and Communication at the António Arroio School of Arts, Lisbon. Worked for several years in France and Portugal, as photographer and assistant director. In 1995 she started directing her own films, exploring subjects which cross her personal history experiences and prominent issues in recent Portuguese history, such as, the colonial war in Africa, the revolution, and the post-colonialism years.

The documentaries “Natal 71/Christmas 71” and “Kuxa Kanema -The Birth of Cinema “, and the feature films “The Murmuring Coast” and “Yvone Kane” are amongst her best known films, and all relate to her experience in colonial and post-colonial Portuguese Africa.

Her films where screened and award in many festivals, such as Rotterdam, Venice and Locarno. In 2005 received one of Portugal’s highest distinction – Commander of the Order of Prince Henry – for her contribution towards spreading Portuguese culture. In 2015 the Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati – Università degli Studi Napoli L’Orientale, created the “Cátedra Margarida Cardoso” a center of creative practice and research inspired on her works.

Director, soundscape researcher and curator. In 2005, after a documentary about oral tradition, started to research the way sound relates to the identity of a place. Did a master on Acoustic Ecology and a PhD under the topic Sound, Space and Acoustic Identity, both in Universidade Nova de Lisboa, department of Communication and Arts. Directed the documentary Soundwalkers, which was presented in Subtropics Festival in Miami and screened at various sound conferences and festivals around the world. Regularly directs and edits tv commercials, videoclips and other institutional works as a freelancer. Has taught Video Direction and other disciplines at Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa. Directs and curates the sound art festival Lisboa Soa and the international symposium Invisible Places. Has two sonorous kids and two dogs and lives near the beach, where she enjoys walking and opening her ears.

Sofia Silva (b. 1982) graduated in Photography at Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (2008) and concluded an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2011, with a scholarship from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. She is a doctor in Sciences of Art (Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisbon, 2018). Between 2011 and 2017, she lectured in Photography at Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (Historical Printing Processes, Color Management, etc.). Sofia started teaching at ETIC in 2014 (Visual Language, Project, etc.). Her work is represented in private collections, as well as in António Cachola’s collection. She is founder and editor at Nihilsentimentalgia and Propeller.

André Príncipe (Porto, 1976). Estudou Psicologia na Universidade do Porto e graduou-se pela Escola de Cinema de Lisboa em 2001. Expõe regularmente desde 2004. Entre as exposições individuais destacam-se: Walls no Centro Português de Fotografia (2005); Tunnels (2005), Smell of tiger precedes Tiger (2009) e Master and Everyone (2011) na Galeria Fernando Santos; I thought you knew where all of the elephants lie down, no Centro Cultural de Ílhavo (2010); Antena 2 na Galeria Pedro Alfacinha (2014), Non-Fiction no Centro Cultural Vila Flor (2018) e Elefante no MAAT, em Lisboa, 2018. Realizou e co-realizou curtas e longas metragens, como Traces of a diary (com Marco Martins) que ganhou o prémio honorário do júri no Documenta Madrid 2011 e foi exibindo em vários festivais internacionais. O seu último filme, Campo de flamingos sem flamingos (Som & Fúria), teve estreia comercial em 2014. André Príncipe é fundador e co-editor da editora de livros Pierre von Kleist. A PVK tem distribuição mundial e é presença regular em feiras de livros como NYArt Feira do Livro no MoMA PS1, Tokyo Art Book Fair e Offprint Paris. Publicou nove livros; Tunnels, (Edições Booth-Clibborn, Londres (2005); Master and Everyone, (2010); I thought you Knew where all of the elephants lie down (2011); Perfume do Boi (2012); Smell of Tiger precedes Tiger (2012); Tokyo Diaries, com Marco Martins (2014); You ́re living for nothing now, Book 1,2,3, (2015) e Non-Fiction (2018) – todos editados pela PVK. O seu trabalho está representado nas mais importantes coleções nacionais como Coleção Nacional de Fotografia, CAV – Centro Artes Visuais, Coleção Novo Banco, Fundação PLMJ.

Alexandre de Magalhães (b. 1983, Porto) graduated in Photography at Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (2014), where his merit as a student was awarded. He first exhibited work in 2012 at Centro de Arte e Imagem, in Tomar. In 2016 he began his work as lecturer in Historical Processes’ related units at the Phography Undergrad (IPT). Since 2017 he has also been invited to take part and teach at the Photograhy Course in Centro de Estudos de Arte Contemporânea – Vila Nova da Barquinha. He is currently enrolled in a PhD program at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa.

Marta Sicurella was born in Parma, Italy, in 1978. She graduated in Languages and Modern Literature at the University of Milan. In 2004, she completed the Curso Avançado de Fotografia at AR.CO., in Lisbon; during 2008 she attended the Photography Course of the Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Program. In 2004, her project Guincho won the Pedro Miguel Frade award, from Centro de Português de Fotografia. She currently teaches at IPT. She is represented in a number of public and private collections. Currently she lives and works in Lisbon.

Paula Lourenço (b. 1982) graduated in Photography at Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (2008), where for the past years she was a lecturer in Historical Processes’ related units. She has been coordinating workshops in printing processes since 2007 (Casa-estúdio Carlos Relvas; Carpe Diem – Centro de arte e pesquisa; Hélice), as well as engaging in short term photography courses for youngsters. She has also been collaborating with several artistic projects (No true magic, A Jigsaw – printing on wood with Sofia Silva and Miguel Duarte; Ampliador de Associação Fosso de Orquestra, printing on glass, etc.).

Valter Ventura (b. 1979) graduated in Art History from Faculdade de Letras (University of Lisbon). He finished in 2005 the Advanced Course in Photography at Ar.Co – Center for Art and Visual Communication, with the Espírito Santo Bank scholarship. Currently he teaches at the Photography Department of Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, also collaborating with Ar.Co, Atelier de Lisboa and the Faculdade de Belas Artes (University of Lisbon). In 2008, participated (in duo with José Nuno Lamas) in the 2nd Photography Course, Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Between 2012 and 2014 he was responsible for the photographic department at Carpe Diem – Art and Research. Currently he’s one of the resident artists at HANGAR – Art Research Center. Along with Duarte Amaral Netto, João Paulo Serafim and Rodrigo Peixoto, he founded HÉLICE – School of Photography. He’s represented by KUBIKGALLERY (Oporto).

Duarte Amaral Netto (b. 1976) Duarte studied photography at Ar.co from 1996 until 2000, where he won the Kodak scholarship to complete his studies in the institution, which were later continued with the participation in the first Photography Course of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the completion of the Post-Graduation in Theory of Visual Culture in 2008. Upon the successful application for the IED grant for the European Master in 2016, Duarte concluded the European Master of Fine Art Photography at IED Madrid. His first solo exhibition in 2002 with the art gallery Modulo – Centro Difusor de Arte toured the Netherlands with solo exhibitions in Nouvelles Images in Den Haag and MK Galerie in Rotterdam in 2003. In that same year, Duarte was awarded the Grand Prix du 48ème Salon de Montrouge, in Paris. Having represented Portugal in “100 photos pour l’Europe” in Paris, Duarte was also selected for several festivals and events such as the “European Night” in Arles in 2006 and Plat(t)form in Winterthur (2014). In 2012, Duarte was nominated for the 8th Edition of the BES PHOTO AWARD, with exhibitions at the Berardo Museum in Lisbon and Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil. Duarte is a Photography teacher since 2003 at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar and a founding member of HÉLICE, an advanced school of photography based in Lisbon.