Film & Television

I lead festival and culture programmes linked with cinema, dance, media, performance and technology. I started teaching 25 years ago, and have been at ETIC since 1997. I have worked in the school as a coordinator of the image and sound department and as a creative director for a significant number of years. I currently teach in the film making field – Cinema, Performance and Media degrees. Units taught include ‘Documentary Film, ‘Film Making’, ‘Creative Process’, ‘Body and Technology’, ‘Video Dance’ and ‘Experimental Film’. For many years I co-supervised final film projects, presentations and debates with students in a national and international context. I really like the exercise of shooting and editing images and sounds in a real experimental way. I regularly go to the theatre, contemporary dance and music performances and I dedicate all my free time to my actual research between movement images and performing arts. I love spending time in the countryside and near the ocean, learning more about the aesthetical impact of nature. Essentially, I love travel and discovering the strong details that change my surroundings.

Fabrícia Valente is a PhD researcher at Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories – ISCTE, Lisbon. With a degree in Architecture (pre-Bologna Declaration) from Universidade de Évora (Portugal) in 2007, and further education in the fields of Photography (from Instituto Português de Fotografia, Portugal), Video (from CENJOR, Portugal) and Planning and Producing Temporary Exhibitions (from Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Portugal). Lines of interest and research include the multidisciplinarity of Architecture and its possibilities of interface, namely with Visual Arts, Cinema and Music.
Her Professional activity is divided between curatorship, critique, writing and cultural mediation. Fabrícia was Curator and Head of Programmes for the KAIROS Pavillion (Pavilhão KAIROS) and developed the educational project O Gesto como Tradução (Gesture as Translation) for the Dar Lugar ao Acontecimento programme held in the Architecture and Theatre cycle of the Almada Theatre Festival.

Inês is an accomplished screenwriter represented by leading agency Independent Talent Group, in London. She has worked with award-winning directors and producers such as Sérgio Machado, Karïm Ainouz, Don Boyd and Lucan Toh and has advised and assessed several industry scripts. She has also worked as Screenwriting Tutor/Guest Lecturer in a number of prestigious schools and universities in London, Cuba and Dubai.

Graduated in Psychological Sciences, I began, in 2004, my work in education on creative areas while developing academic investigation in parallel. I’m part of the teams of ETIC, as teacher in Cinema/Television HN course, and of EPI as a pedagogic consultor, candidates profiling and courses composition, teacher and responsible for individual mentoring service to students. In this school, I work transversally with Animation, Graphic Design, Photography, Acting, Multimedia, Musical Production, Sound and Video courses. I took my academic training in psychology to the pedagogical context where I cross it with intervention in professional, artistic and technical education. Along this connection with education, I highlight particularly in my work with students, the dedication to individual and collective creative processes, the strong investment in personal development, critical-analytical thinking, writing and methodological reflection, which I also apply in collaborations with groups of artistic works, outside school contexts, and with private practice of counselling.

I graduated in Communication Sciences in 1998, and, since then, I have worked in education as well as in media production, mainly for Television. I teach Production, and a variety of Project and Workshop courses at the University of Beira Interior, mostly in the Film Undergrad degree, but also in the master’s of Multimedia, Journalism and Digital Games Design. I have been, for over ten years, the head of Film Production at this University and, since 2016, I am the Coordinator of the Film Undergrad Course. I obtained my PhD with a thesis about Transmedia Storytelling, focused on the key role that movies can play within a transmedial structure or, in a broader sense, within a media ecosystem shaped by Cultural Convergence. Digital Storytelling as thus became a key feature of my research and teachings, from interactive fiction to expanded cinema, even though I never abandoned my former research subjects, that included television fiction and film production. I favour a multidisciplinary approach that combines traditional media production techniques with hypermedia and transmedia frameworks and tools.

Nélia Cruz holds a PhD in Literature and Culture (“Screenwriting as a cultural practice: the screenwriter gaze”) from the University of Lisbon. She is Specialist in Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication by IPLisboa, IPLeiria, IPPorto. Has worked as a TV Producer in Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) and also as a Production Director and Creative Director in independent film production (Zepelin Filmes and Sparkle Animation). Her research interests include screenwriting studies and audiovisual narratives, having been invited, as a speaker, to several conferences on these subjects. She is an investigator in English Studies at the University of Lisbon (CEAUL), where she produces work related with memory and nostalgia; and in the Centro de Literaturas e Culturas Lusófonas e Europeias (CLEPUL) where the project 25/S Television Studies, Communication, Culture and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Arts is being developed with her coordination. She is a screenwriter and a scriptwriting teacher having written, among other works, the awarded short film The Giant. She is currently developing the animation feature film Melpomina (supported by ICA for writing and development 2020)

Creative and resourceful PhD student of Art Studies, with two masters in screenwriting and directing, lecturing in the field of writing for film. With a background in script and journalistic photography, wishes to keep pushing the envelope, not only in her teaching and academic research, but also in the different projects she is involved in. Delving lately into contemporary art, creative writing, and even psychoanalysis, looks to reflect upon the close relationship between theory and practice.