About
The Educational Service at Solar – Cinematic Art Gallery is vital to the organization’s initiatives. This project aims to align with the annual program by introducing young audiences to the concepts of art and cinema.
One of the key components of this initiative is the annual exhibition called Animar, which highlights the film creation process. In addition to this exhibition, the Curtas Metragens C. R. L. team provides ongoing monthly training and educational services, collaborating with various organizations and educational institutions.
The project primarily emphasizes animated cinema, fostering public discussions among young people about cinematic art. Activities include short film screenings, workshops, and seminars led by guest artists. These sessions facilitate accessible and clear dialogues regarding the techniques utilized in both documentary and animated filmmaking, thereby educating participants about film production processes. Over time, this initiative generates significant cultural and artistic impacts within the community.
A Curtas Metragens C. R. L. é uma Cooperativa de Produção Cultural que nos últimos anos tem apoiado a atividade letiva em Vila do Conde, concelhos vizinhos e um pouco por todo o país.
Objetivos e Propostas do
Serviço Edicativo
O Serviço Educativo da Curtas Metragens C. R. L. desenvolve ao longo do ano atividades de mediação entre os projetos de programação cultural da Cooperativa e os diversos públicos.
O seu principal objetivo consiste em criar um elo entre a comunidade, as exposições e as atividades paralelas, focadas em diferentes linguagens e formas de expressão artísticas apresentadas pela Solar – Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Agência da Curta Metragem e Curtas Vila do Conde – Festival Internacional de Cinema.
She began her studies in acting and has established herself as an actress in both national and international film, theatre, and television projects. Holding a degree in Photography from the School of Media Arts and Design (IPP), she has also completed various continuous training courses and workshops in diverse areas such as photography, scientific writing, and most recently, curating, producing, and designing exhibitions. She has participated in group exhibitions and audiovisual festivals at both national and international levels, showcasing her projects. In addition to her artistic endeavours, she has worked as a photographer and photo editor.
Within the production realm, her experience includes collaboration with a theatre company, a music festival, and currently, she is with Solar - Cinematic Art Gallery.
Graduated in Social Communication from the University of Minho with a specialization in journalism and video, a master's degree in Documentary Cinema, from ESMAD, and a master's degree in Audiovisual Production, from Rome University of Fine Arts.
She was a journalist for almost a decade, having collaborated in various media, from radio to television and the written press. Since 2014, she has also worked in the area of production and scriptwriting, playing an important role in documentary development research.
In the educational field, she is responsible for the educational project "Escola.Cinema.Ação", cinema trainer, and a cinema workshop facilitator. As a freelancer, she works in different areas: copywriting, directing and production. In the audiovisual area, she is producing the docufiction “The Missing Cat”.
Graduated in Cinema from the University of Beira Interior, with a post-graduate qualification in Photography and Documentary Film from the School of Media Arts and Design of the Oporto Polytechnic. She has been developing her work between the areas of cinema and photography.
In cinema, she has collaborated on short and feature films, navigating various areas, from image to production and acting. "Through The Haze", a short film she produced, had its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 and won the National Competition prize at the Curtas de Vila do Conde Festival in 2020. In recent years she has been more involved in distribution and now in educational services.
In photography and visual arts, she has been developing work that is mostly documentary or biographical, having taken part in various artist residencies and been present at several group exhibitions.
Born in Porto on 19th June 1966. Portuguese nationality. Graduated in Communication Design - Graphic Art from the Porto School of Fine Arts in 1992.
Attended the 2nd year of the Painting Course at the Porto School of Fine Arts in 1986. Founder of the Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival in 1993 and, since then, member of the Board of Directors and the Selection Committee for the International and National Competitions. Programmer of various retrospective and extra-competition sections at Curtas Vila do Conde - International Short Film Festival and in various exhibitions and cycles elsewhere in Portugal and abroad. Representative of the Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival at numerous international festivals in Portugal and abroad.
He currently coordinates the activities of the Agência - Portuguese Short Film Agency, which sells and distributes Portuguese short films. He has produced a number of short films and is currently involved in two new projects, one fiction and the other documentary.
Producer of several films such as: "Semente Exterminadora", by Pedro Neves Marques, "Noite sem distância", by Lois Patino, "Vila do Conde espraiada", by Miguel Clara Vasconcelos, "O milagre de Santo António", by Sergei Loznitsa, "Fernando que ganhou um pássaro do Mar", by Felipe Bragança and Helvécio Marins Jr.He was also co-producer of the series "10 - a series of short films": "Kalkitos", by Miguel Gomes, "Remains", by Sandro Aguilar, "Dieci minuti alla finne", by Danielle Cipri and Franco Maresco, "Beacon", Matthias Mueller and Christoph Girardet.
Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1965, of Portuguese nationality. He graduated from the Porto School of Fine Arts with a Special Cycle in Plastic Arts - Painting. He attended the Master's programme in Multimedia Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto.
He has been a teacher since 1986 and a secondary school teacher since 1992. He also taught at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, on a trial basis, for one academic year. A film club member since 1981, he founded the Vila do Conde Film Club and remained a member of its management until 1996. He founded the Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival in 1993 and has been a board member ever since. From the outset, he took on responsibilities related to the selection committee for competitions, programming in general, publishing catalogues, graphic design and other organisational aspects of an executive nature. Since April 1997, when he was founded, he has been the director of Curtas Metragens CRL, which, in addition to organising Curtas Vila do Conde, has developed a wide range of programming and cinema activities and other cultural areas.
He was the founder of the Agência — Portuguese Short Film Agency, of which he is still a member of the Executive Board. Founder and co-artistic director of Solar — Cinematic Art Gallery, since March 2005. Curator of the exhibitions by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2002), "Revisitations", by Matthias Muller and Christoph Girardet (2005), "Imitations of Life" by Mike Hoolboom (2007) and "T.D.", by João Penalva, at Solar — Galeria de Arte Cinemática. Curator of the exhibition "No Cinema" (2008) at the Memory Centre in Vila do Conde, with works by Tsai Ming-liang, Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet, Graham Gussin, Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder, Ariane Michel and Cesário Alves. Co-author of the project Estaleiro - Imagens, Sons e Ideias em Movimento, for programming, production and training in the areas of cinema, visual arts and music, which has been implemented in the northern region since its inception in 2011.
A Equipa por de trás deste projecto é constituída por elementos das mais variadas areas, desde artes e Cinema a gestão e Produção cultural. Esta equipa propõe-se representar os interesses sociais e escolares em vila do conde e cidades vizinhas, apoiando e Promovendo a integração da produção artistica e cultural no plano curricular das Escolas.
