Directing - Cinema and Television

Filmmaker graduated from La Femis, Paris. Bachelor by the University of Paris III, Sorbonne. Was selected for Cannes Film Festival - Cinéfondation section, with Gaia (2004) and Cinema du Réel, with Circa Me (2002). Made films in collaboration, such as A Cultura do Capital (2003) or Traveling 70'-76 '(2007) and the video installation A Colher (2010), presented in the context of the projects All my independent women and A Question of Gender. Was assistant of Paulo Rocha, Ricardo Leite and Saguenail and assistant assembly of Boris Lehman. Also collaborated with creators from several areas: Ana Deus, Balla Prop, Yasmine Hugonnet, Alejandra Sol, João Costa, Igor Gandra, Joana Providência, João Alves, PAM, Ângelo de Sousa and Dan Graham (for a film presented at the Bienal de S. Paulo). Between 2005 and 2013 collaborated with  Serralves Museum in the assembly of audiovisual works and production of cinema cycles. Program sessions and cycles of Cinema in alternative spaces of OPorto. Taught Cinema and Video at FEUP and at  Lusófona University of OPorto. Doctorate (scholarship FCT) with investigation in the amateur cinema produced during the Portuguese revolution. Participated in Estado Novo and the Image, parallel to the exhibition Beyond the Ucronia - unpublished stories of the 25 of April, org. Museum of Neo-Realism and Révolution et cinéma: l'exemple portugais, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris. Participated in 2014 in the project Some reasons for a non-demissionary art (cur Eduarda Neves) and in 2016-17 in the series of exhibitions Correspondences (Cur Eduarda Neves).exhibitions Correspondências (cur. Eduarda Neves).

Licenciado em Psicologia (Universidade do Porto, 1986), Mestre em Psicologia Social (Universidade do Porto, 1998), e Doutorado em Ciências Sociais, linha de investigação Psicologia da Arte (Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 2015). Professor Auxiliar na Escola Superior Artística do Porto, onde leciona desde 1987. Membro fundador do Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo (1999), onde coordena o eixo de investigação “Espaço no Cinema” do Grupo Estudos de Cinema. Autor de vários livros e artigos científicos nas áreas do cinema, da arquitetura e da antropologia cultural.

Isolino Alves de Sousa, (Ph. D), Doctorate in Media Art (2018) by Lusofona University of Oporto, Master´s degree in Comunication Science (television studies) and bachelor´s degree in Comunication Science.

More than 40 years of work in television as a producer, director and programmer at RTP, beeing envolved in various television projects in Portugal. He has developed teaching activity since 1998 in several high schools and since 2000 in ESAP as a professor in the Film and Audiovisual Degree and in the Masters in Film and Television Directing at ESAP.

Takes part in the organization os MIFEC, Interbational Film School exibition since 2008. In this role has been taken part in national and international festivals and developping other activities that aim to disclose the cinema and television and to promote ESAP.

Jorge Palinhos é escritor e dramaturgo. As suas obras já foram apresentadas e/ou editadas em Portugal, Brasil, Espanha, Estados Unidos da América, França, Países Baixos, Bélgica, Alemanha, Suíça e Sérvia, em espaços como o Teatro Nacional São João, o Teatro Meridional, o Teatro Municipal Rivoli e Teatro Municipal Campo Alegre, o Teatro Beursschouwburg, em Bruxelas, o Teatro Schaubühne, em Berlim, o Graham Institute, de Chicago, o SESC de São Paulo, La Comédie de Reims, CDN Orléans, o Teatro Nanterre-Amandiers, em Paris, etc.

Foi galardoado com o Prémio Miguel Rovisco 2003 e o Prémio Manuel-Deniz Jacinto 2007, e esteve na short-list do Prémio Luso-Brasileiro de Teatro António José da Silva 2011.

Foi dramaturgo e dramaturgista convidado na Capital Europeia da Cultura Guimarães 2012, é dramaturgista da companhia belga Stand-up Tall, e investigador residente da companhia Visões Úteis.

É doutorado em Estudos Culturais com uma tese sobre dramaturgia lusófona contemporânea. Investigador responsável do Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, Diretor da Licenciatura em Teatro e docente da Escola Superior Artística do Porto e da Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. Tem feito investigação no âmbito da dramaturgia, performance, narrativa interativa e espacialidades.

Studied in ESAP Porto from 1995-1998 and 2001-2002 completing the Degrees in "Cine-Video" and "Arte e Comunicação". He also studied Sound Studies in ESCAC, Barcelona (1998-2001).

He is a Lecturer at ESAP since 2001, Porto, and Guimarães (2008-2012).

Lecturer at Instituto Multimédia since 2001, Porto.

Founder of Ourafilmes (Audio, Film and Video Production) in 1997 and Speaker Blower Records in 2007.

Sound Design, Recorder, Editor, Mixer and/or Post-Production of dozens of short/medium/long films in Portugal and Spain since 1999.

Creator of VST instruments and effects since 2005.

Recorder and Producer of Music/Sound as Dr. Speaker Blower since 1998.

Master in Audiovisual Production and Directing, holder of the Title of Specialist in Media and Audiovisual Production, and the Television Operator course at RTP, in Lisbon. For the last 12 years he has taught cinema in higher education, in areas such as screenplay, directing and editing, among others (ESMAE, ESMAD, ESAP). He currently teaches at ESAP's Master's and Degree in Cinema and Audiovisual (Cinema Script, Film Analysis and Post-production). He had his films selected at more than 80 film festivals, national and international, having won about a dozen awards, either as a screenwriter or with the fictions he directed. He has taught several film and audiovisual workshops, and has been a jury at several film festivals (example: ÉCU 2019, Paris, and Finisterre, 2023). The last film he wrote, directed, and edited, “Carnaval Sujo” (already shown on RTP), premiered in the international competition of the 2019 Avanca Festival. 2023.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Cine-Vídeo and a Master's degree in Film and Television Direction, both by ESAP-Escola Superior Artística do Porto. He works in film and video since 1990. He had collaborated with Madragoa Filmes, RTP- Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, Filmógrafo, LAP Filmes, Hélastre and Papaveronoir. He belonged to the staff of Alfândega-Filmes and Filmes Liberdade, He directed aDeus (fiction/ 35 mm/ 10’/ b&w / 2000), Quando eu Morrer (fiction/ DVCAM/ 11’/ color / 2006), Dia de Visita (fiction/ HD/ 14’/ b&w/ 2011), Bicicleta (fiction/ DCP 2K/ 45’/ b&w/ 2014), O Sapato (fiction/ DCP 2K/ 5’/ color/ 2017) and Geni (doc/ DCP 2K/ 51’/ color / 2018).

Graduated in cinema at Escola Superior Artística do Porto (2004). He obtained a Diploma in Advanced Studies (2008) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Vigo. Master in Artistic Studies (2010) by the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto and PhD by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Vigo (2015). He has published several articles in magazines dedicated to film studies, having coordinated the book: Manoel de Oliveira - Aesthetic Analysis of a Cinematographic Matrix (Editions 70, 2014). Published the book: Portuguese Cinema: Aesthetic Interceptions in the Decades of 60 to 80 of the 20th Century (Editions 70, 2016). He is a director of the Cinema and Audiovisual degree at the Superior School of Art of Porto, integrated researcher at the Arnaldo Araújo Research Center,  and is a member of the organizing committee of the International Meeting of Cinema and Other Arts, having participated in the coordination of 4 volums Cinema e outras Artes - Diálogos e Inquietudes Artísticas published by LabCom.IFP.

NR graduated in Sculpture at FBAUP/School of Fine Arts, University of Porto (1999), and holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2008). In 2011 he began a PhD research in Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and completed it at FBAUP/School of Fine Arts, University of Porto. Since 1999 he has been developing his work in the field of visual arts, individually and in collaboration with other artists, in areas such as drawing, installation, sculpture, performance, sound, video and curatorial practices. He has held 17 solo exhibitions, 5 of which in collaboration with fellow artists, and participated in over 60 group shows in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, USA, Norway, UK, Russia and Germany. He was the curator of 7 exhibitions, and since 2016 he is the programmer of the Portuguese video art and moving image screening project Playlist, held in Porto, with 42 shows produced and presented so far. Together with Isabel Ribeiro and Susana Chiocca, he was responsible for the Recursos Humanos / Human Resources programme, a series of talks dedicated to the public presentation and discussion of works and creation processes by artists, architects, designers and others. His work is represented in institutional collections such as CAV - Centro de Artes Visuais and the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as in several private collections. In 2002 he was resident artist at Triangle France, Marseille, and in 2004 he was one of the nominees for the EDP Young Artists award in Portugal. Between 2006 and 2008 he was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, and the Louise Woods Memorial scholarship. He was also awarded a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Research grant between 2011 and 2015. From 2000 to 2005 he collaborated with the education program of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. He was teaching assistant in the New Genres course at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007, and in 2011 began teaching at the BFA in Photography program, ESAP - Porto Art School, where he leads a seminar on Portuguese video art since 2017. He lives and works in Porto and is represented by Graça Brandão gallery, Lisbon.