Documentaries
Cristina Lara Corrêa
(Brazil/Portugal)
Cristina Lara Corrêa has a technical background in the area of Conservation and Restoration with a bachelor’s degree in visual arts (FEBASP), specialization in Management of Public Cultural Policies (UnB) and Caretaking of São Paulo’s Built Historical Heritage (MAS-SP), master’s degree in Art History (UNICAMP) and candidate of PhD in Museology at ULusófona in Lisbon where she collaborates with MusaCine – Museology and Cinema Exhibition. Member of ICOM (International Council of Museums, Brazil), director of CLC Conservação Preventiva e Pesquisa, consulting partner of LUME, and part of the Core Team of APOYOnline.
Cristina has a learning spirit where she seeks to expand her research interest in multigenerational dialogue through conscious consumption actions and practices in the areas of museology and preventive conservation in inclusive, sustainable, participatory, and accessible activities in the face of intercultural consensus, protection of human rights and civic awareness.
Luís Jorge Rodrigues Gonçalves
(Portugal)
PhD in Fine Arts, branch of Art and Heritage Sciences/Archaeology, by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. He teaches in the fields of art history, museology, curatorship, archeology, and heritage. He investigates the domains of art history, design, archeology, spirituality in art, and environmental issues in art.
Andre Birken
(Germany/Portugal)
I was born in Minden (Germany) in 1971, where I founded the radio collective “Freundsender Morgenstern” with a fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. At the same time, in 1996 I started directing “Was Weiss Ich” (Super8, 66′ – Nordstadt Filmtage Hannover 1997). As a freelance author, I have published in Nektar magazine and Zeter und Mordio. In 1995 I had my first solo exhibition at the Minden City Theater, which generated new invitations.
In 1997 I founded a new radio group, “Radio Namaste” – this time of an experimental nature, again with a permanent place at Radio Westfalica (until 2006). A year later I started studying sound art with Ulrich Eller, which culminated in the creation of MELATONIN®forte (premiered at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival in 2004). During this time I mainly worked as an educational guide or gardener.
In the same year I published “Des Lebens Roter Faden” co-authored with Alice Alighieri (Zeter and Mordio, ISBN 978-3-9809552-1-8) and two years later I contributed to the anthology „not testified” (ed. Mehmet Yaman, 2006 , Zeter and Mordio, ISBN-13 3-9809552-2-2, ISBN-13 978-3-9809552-2-5.)
In 2005, I finally moved to Portugal in 2005, where, while still working as a chef in a vegetarian restaurant, I began to study the landscapes, customs and history of this country and myself. prepared for my new job as a tour guide based in Évora.
I also directed some semi-documentary films, the most recently released ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
Jorge Gusman
(Argentina)
From 1968 to 1971.
He studied direction and theatre acting with A.Ure; G.Heras; Darío Fó; J.Valenzuela; A.Boal.
Dramaturgy with R. Monti; R. Halac.
Screenwriting with E. Antonieto and A.Steimberg
Art History with Dinah Rímoli..
Film Language with A.Fisherman and S.Feldman.
Documentary Film with O.Getino; F.Solanas at ACE (Documentary Film Association).
Psychodramatist at the School of Psychoanalytic Psychodrama of E.Pavlovsky.
He attended Seminars: Semiology and Art. Psychoanalysis, Metaphysics. Philosophy, Aesthetics, among many others.
From 1971 to 1976.
He founded and directed the Taller Integral de Cine. (TAIC),
He made short documentaries in Super 8 in neighborhood social programs in Greater Buenos Aires.
He filmed in Super 8 (Unique Material) the return of J.D. Peron to Argentina.
1977 to 2023
He directed more than 50 plays in Buenos Aires, the interior and outside of Argentina.
1980 to 1983.
He directed educational videos on Ecology, History and Cultural Heritage for publishers: Kapeluz, Oriente and Tres Américas of Argentina.
Acting advice on feature films and television series in Argentina and abroad to actress Martina Gusman (daughter).
1983 to 2017
He directed the Theater School of the Manzana de las Luces, in Buenos Aires. Argentina.
He gave theater workshops at the J.T. Borda Neuropsychiatric Hospital. Faculty of Psychology. National Museums of the Ministry of Culture of Argentina and other educational institutions.
2018 to 2023
Directing and staging historical theatrical and audiovisual pieces in Museums of Buenos Aires, in person and virtually.
2003 to 2005
Taught acting classes and directed historical works for the National School of Museology of Buenos Aires.
2005 to 2009.
Programming Coordinator of the Teatro Argentino of the City of La Plata in Argentina.
Theater and film workshops in Juvenile Institutes and Prisons in the Buenos Aires suburbs. Aires. Argentina.
During his career he exhibited in academic settings, congresses and different cultural institutions of the Argentine Republic.
1983 to 2016
Awards in Argentina:
Coca Cola. Teatro La Plaza. Bs.As.
Teatro Auditórium. Mar del Plata.
Madrid Spain. Cadarzo Hall.
Colonia República Oriental del Uruguay. Bastión del Carmen Hall.
2015
Argentina. First Prize.
Documentary miniseries competition, 8 chapters. INCAA
(National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts)
2018
The winning documentary “La Lucha Continúa” was invited to be screened at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow. Then in St. Petersburg. Also at Casa Migrante in Amsterdam, Holland, Rome, Barcelona and Madrid.
It was also shown in several provinces of the Argentine Republic and neighborhoods of the suburbs of the Province and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Currently in the pre-production stage of the documentary “Secrets to protect Cultural Heritage” supervised by the Department of Protection of Cultural Heritage of Interpol Argentina and the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale of Rome, Italy.
He teaches acting classes for theater and in front of the camera in different spaces in the City of Buenos Aires.
Rocío Royo
(Spain)
Cultural manager and law graduate with training in the fields of cultural management, art and social intervention, accessibility and quality. In 2016 she created Espacio C from where she designs and coordinates, for various public and private institutions, events, festivals and meetings where the community feels protagonist, generating close spaces of emotion and exchange of cultural, patrimonial and artistic thought, with deep respect for the creative processes and their impact on people. Its line of action is based on the analysis and respect for the environment with the commitment to contribute to society through sustainable, equal, accessible and inclusive work.
She has been organising in Robledo de Chavela (Madrid) since 2018 ‘Dragones de Robledo, Festival de Artes y Patrimonio’, endorsed within the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018 and supported with Next Generation funds in 2022 and 2023. She currently lives in San Fernando, Cádiz, where she is developing different projects, including the enhancement of Las Salinas as a cultural landscape.
Eduardo Porfirio
(Portugal)
Eduardo Porfírio is archaeologist at the Department of Culture, Sintra Municipality, and collaborative researcher at CEAACP – University of Coimbra (Research Center in Archaeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences).
He has co-managed the Outeiro do Circo Project (PAOC) since 2008 having developed several multi-year research projects to study this Bronze Age settlement located in southern Portugal. During these years and until today we have also developed at PAOC a program to communicate archaeology to the public, integrating aspects of Heritage Education, Public and Community Archaeology.
He has published extensively on these topics, including a significant number of contributions in national and international journals, including conference proceedings and local publications.
Previously he worked as freelance fieldwork archaeologist in several research and safeguarding archeological projects (1999-2002), and in 2002 he co-founded Palimpsesto – Estudo e Preservação do Património Cultural Lda, where until 2020 he carried out archaeological consultancy, coordination and scientific direction of projects.
Links:
https://independent.academia.edu/EduardoPorfirio
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eduardo_Porfirio
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9816-8327
Roberta Caldas Schmoi
(Portugal/ Brasil/Germany)
Roberta Schmoi has a Master’s in World Heritage Studies from the Technical University of Brandenburg where she specializes in uncomfortable heritage interpretation. With a multi-potential career, she is a travel writer, and a photographer and works in a film tech with the mission of making cinema inclusive for everyone.
Yvan Pozuelo
(Spain)
Graduated from the Sorbonne University and PhD from the University of Oviedo. Historian, secondary school teacher, he coordinated Erasmus+ and eTwinning educational projects based on peace, recognized by the European Union as successful projects. Author of more than 40 writings, including books and articles referring to organizations that promote fraternity or to analyses related to the rescue of historical justice and democratic memory. His academic research focused on the association of Freemasonry and reflects on pacifism and the role of violence in contemporary history. He has also promoted lines of didactic renewal in classrooms. Author of the book “Slave traders or teachers? The rebellion of 10”, which has earned him a job persecution, his educational approach revolves around the elimination of injustices from public schools in order to reduce violence and hate speech in all its forms..
António João Saraiva
Portugal
António João Saraiva earned his PhD in 2013 in Visual Anthropology at the Center for the Study of Migration and Intercultural Relations (CEMRI), Open University in Lisbon, Portugal (2013) where he is also a research member. He earned his MA in Film and Media Studies from Lusófona University of Lisbon, Portugal (2007) and his undergraduate degree in Geography from the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal (1989). He has been producing and directing educational, ethnographic, and environmental documentary films since 1992 and has also worked on a variety of documentary projects for Portuguese Television. His current research work deals with Azorean immigrants in California and return.
Noteworthy audiovisual/visual anthropological production works by António João Saraiva include:
– 2013: documentary A Minha Terra é uma Ilha (My Home is an Island). CEMRI- UAb.
– 2011: documentary Regressa Urgente (Return Urgent). CEMRI-UAb, (co-director with João Sardinha).
– 2010: documentary Orlando Ribeiro: Itinerancias de um Geógrafo (Orlando Ribeiro: Itineraries of a Geographer). RTP Television, (co-director with Manuel Carvalho Gomes).
– 2009: documentary Gente de Fajãs (People of the Fajãs – Land between the cliffs and the sea). Grand Prize Winner – Best Documentary Film, 2009 Anthropological Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal.
– 2007: hypermedia/video Caparicanos Interactivos (Caparicanos Interactive), based on the life memories and cultural heritage of a fishermen’s community in the town of Costa de Caparica, Portugal.
– 1999: fiction film Um Certo Amarelo (A Certain Yellow). Awarded 1st Prize at the 1999 Videocor Video Festival.
– 1997: documentary Ventos de Largo (Offshore Winds). Awarded the Gold Prize at the 1997 CineEco International Environmental Film and Video Festival, the first prize award in the Ecology Category at the 1998 VideoViana Festival, and was the Portuguese selection for the 2001 ECOmove – Environmental Film Festival of FESTIVALS.
– 1995: documentary Sabugueiro, Verão, 1050m (Elderberry, Summer, 1050m). Awarded the Serra da Estrela Special Prize at the 1995 CineEco International Environmental Film and Video Festival, and the Open University Best Film Award at the 1996 Open University Video Festival.
He has screened these and various other works at various national and international festivals. Some of his work can be viewed in lugar do real http://lugardoreal.com/lugar-do-real/biografia-e-historia?tag=antonio-joao-saraiva And here: http://vimeo.com/user4750138/videos
Animations
Eliane Gordeeff
(Brazil)
Eliane is a Brazilian animator (known as Gordeeff), a Professor, researcher of animation, Asifa, and a SAS member. She is a co-partner of Quadro Vermelho Produções having produced, animated, and directed more than 16 animated shorts. Some of them exhibited at International festivals such as Cinanima, Nuevo Latinoamericano de Havana, Anima Mundi, Sicaf, Anima, Encounters Festival.
She holds a Ph.D. in Multimedia (Lisbon University) and a Master in Visual Arts (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). In 2018, she edited the book “Aesthetic Interferences, the stop motion technique in the animation narrative” where she analyzed the contribution of some specificities of the technique in storytelling.
As an animation researcher, she has more than 60 articles between academic and non-academic texts with more than 4,200 readers on Researchgate.org. Nowadays, she also contributes as the Portugal and Brazil correspondent for Zippy Frames.com and works as an On-line Tutor at Veiga de Almeida University (Brazil).
Marcelo Elhaibe
(Argentina)
He currently holds the rank of General Commissioner of the Argentine Federal Police. He is Secretary of Postgraduate Studies at the University Institute of the Argentine Naval Prefecture.
He is a permanent member of the Argentine Committee to Combat Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Assets from its origin to date, instituted by Decree 1166/03.
He is an expert consultant appointed by UNESCO in 2015.
He is a lawyer who graduated from the Faculty of Law of the U.B.A. in 1993. He also completed the following postgraduate courses:
– Cultural Manager, a degree awarded by the University of Tres de Febrero.
– Diploma in Cultural Management, Heritage and Sustainable Tourism awarded by the Ortega y Gasset Foundation Argentina
– International Postgraduate Course in Heritage and Sustainable Tourism organized by UNESCO.
-He holds a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the U.B.A on “Artistic Heritage and Culture in Colonial South America” whose thesis was recently published in the book “The Illicit Trafficking of Colonial Cultural Goods in the Argentine Republic” Editorial Ministry of Culture of the Nation.
https://www.clarin.com/suplementos/zona/contrabando-arte-ir-venir_0_H1HMa3Fil.html
Amilcar Vargas
(Spain)
Dr. Amilcar Vargas is an international expert in World Heritage management and holds a PhD from the University of Barcelona. He is responsible for the implementation of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention at Casa Batlló, including raising awareness of the Outstanding Universal Value, fulfilling the obligations and pursuing the potential opportunities of Casa Batlló’s inscription on the UNESCO List. He has worked in renowned institutions such as UNESCO and other World Heritage sites and is a guest professor in the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, among others.
His international experience includes academic stays, university lectures, publications and conferences in 20 countries. He is member of ICOMOS, ICOM and the International Association of World Heritage Professionals.
Pedro Bastos
(Portugal)
Brief Biography
Pedro Bastos (1980) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, regularly exhibiting in exhibitions collective and individual. He also works in cinema as a director and screenwriter. yourfilms have been shown at national and international festivals such as the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Mostra de São Paulo, Oberhausen, among others. His film Flyby Kathy received the jury award for best film at the Cinema Zero 2023 Festival, Italy. Regularly collaborates with the production company Bando à Parte, being co-writer of the feature film Ornamento & Crime de Rodrigo Areias (El Rey Award for Excellence in Dramatic Narrative – International Film Festival Barcelona Cinema); screenwriter of the short film Carosello by Jorge Quintela (Grande City of Vila do Conde Award – Best Film in International Competition); or even Agouro (co-writer), animated short film by David Doutel & Vasco Sá (International Competition – Grand Prize – Busan International Short Film Festival, Korea); between others. He was a trainer in an analogue photography laboratory and, more recently, has collaborated on community projects, developing collective writing works or cinematographic production, (Outra Voz; ATOS program, from the Odisseia Nacional project, TDMII, with the artistic direction of Rui Souza); as well as the Triangular project, in partnership with Degree in Visual Arts from EAAD (School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho), the CIAJG (Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães), and the CAAA Association (Center for Art and Architectural Affairs).