Born in Porto , Portugal,  1974.

Portuguese filmmaker, has been working in different formats of filmmaking  and performance. In the past years she has regularly worked as a director in music video, commercials, short and art films and also as a writer for her first feature film currently in pre production by alfama films. Common to her work is a transversal language where she adapts multiple formats and spaces to the human theme, how people live and move in different geography’s, cities, country’s.


EDUCATION

1998 / 2000 / Master of Arts New York University ( N.Y.U.)

2000 / 2002 / Major em Directing / Minor em Writting Los Angeles Film School

2003 / U. C. L. A. Extension Writers Program - Advanced Screenwriting

2007 / Theater Direction Course Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / Third Angel.


PERFORMANCE

13| 14, 2007, GULBENKIAN MODERN ART CENTER / MARIA MATOS THEATER LISBON

MANY PEOPLE, 2008, GULBENKIAN MODERN ART CENTER


INSTALLATION

MANY PEOPLE, 2009, CINEMA KING LISBON, 20 YEARS MEDEIA FILMS


FILMOGRAPHY

ALPHA MINUS, short film ( pre - production )

SOME INVISIBLE THINGS, feature film ( pre - production )

ORELHA NEGRA, 2011 , short film

I GOT IT ON SLOW - SELFISH CUNT, 2009, installation

TRIP TO CHINA ECSTASY, 2008, short film

MANY PEOPLE, 2008, installation

DOMINGÃO, 2008, short film

13| 14, 2007, short film



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