Universidade Lusófona

António Afonso Costa

Master in Film Studies since 2014 and currently PhD researcher. Tony Costa is both a professional cinematographer and a teacher at Lusofona University where he is the head of the cinematography department. He was born in Hamilton-Ontario, Canada in 1962 born from Portuguese emigrant parents whom have decided to return to Portugal in 1970’s. He was back to Canada in the 1980’s where he began taking a few professional courses in the camera department while was working in the Medallion Film Labs in Toronto. He began as an assistant camera in music videos in Toronto just before returning to Portugal where he pursued a career as an assistant camera up to being a cinematographer. His first feature as cinematographer was called «Sem Ela» in 2011. Since 2004 he has been teaching in The Lusofona University in Lisbon by maintaining his professional assignments as cinematographer. He is one of the founders of the Portuguese Academy of cinema and of the Portuguese Society of Cinematographers where he keeps a seat in the board of directories. Tony was vise-president of IMAGO (The European Federation of Cinematographers) and currently he is the editor of the imago website.

Célia Quico

Célia Quico is a professor and researcher at Universidade Lusófona in Portugal, currently involved in the projects a) ResponSEAble - “Protecting the ocean: our collective responsibility, our common interest.

Supporting the development of cost-effective ocean literacy in Europe” (2015-2018), financed by Horizon 2020 and b) “Innova Museum - Museums comes back to the locals through art and food” (2016-2018), financed by Creative Europe. Celia previously worked for the cable and DTH operator ZON Multimédia as a project manager of digital interactive television and multimedia. Also, Célia worked as consultant for the social responsibility project “PT Escolas” for Portugal Telecom, which promoted digital literacy among Portuguese young people. In 2008, she obtained her PhD in Communication Sciences by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with a thesis about young people in Portugal and their usage of media, internet and mobile.

David Novack

David Novack is a filmmaker, a sound engineer and sound designer.

He holds a degree in music from Berklee College of Music and an engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania, in which he also has been teaching for several years in its School of Design.

As a sound designer and re-recording mixer, D. Novack’s work includes dozens of projects and major awards for documentary and fiction film productions, including Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine, Living Out Loud, Last Days of Disco, Kids, Safe and The Corporation. He also designed, scored, notated and mixed theatrical and album sound effects for Roger Waters’ opera, Ça Ira.

As a filmmaker he directed, wrote and produced Finding Babel (a cross-genre documentary and art film on the life and work of Russian writer Isaac Babel) and Burning the Future: Coal in America (PBS, Sundance Channel, US State Department’s American Documentary Showcase), which won the prestigious IDA Pare Lorentz Award and the British Clarion Award, both for social documentary filmmaking. He also produced Kimjongilia, featuring the testimony of N. Korean refugees, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the 2010 human rights documentary award from the One World Brussels Film Fest of the Human Rights and Democracy Network.

Inês Gil

Inês Gil is an Associate Professor at ECATI (School of Communication, Arts and Information Technology) at Lusófona University since 2007, where she has taught film and photography since 2000. She was coordinator of the Lisbon Photography Archive of the Portuguese Photography Center between 1998 and 2001.

After completing a specialized training in conservation and restoration of photography and film at the IFROA (Institut Français and Restauration des Oeuvres d¿Art in Paris) between 1989 and 1994, she completed her PhD in Film at the Paris 8 University in 2002, with a thesis on the Atmosphere in Cinema published by Gulbenkian Editions in 2005; Finished a postdoctoral fellowship in 2010, with an FCT scholarship, on film skating and its use in contemporary experimental films. She completed a 2nd post-doc on Contemporary Cinema and Time at the Catholic University of Lisbon in 2015. She is the director of documentaries and installations in vidéoarte.

Hedisson Mota

Professor at Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies lecturing music and audio production. Researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology INET-md Univ. of Aveiro) and at CIC Digital/ CICANT (ULHT).

Holds a licenciate degree in Musical Sciences (NOVA University of Lisbon) and a masters degree in Multimedia Communication (Aberta University). Currently working on his PhD in Acoustics and Music Technology with doctoral research project in the field of audio production (Univ. de Aveiro).

AVID Certified Instructor (ACI) trained by AVID Europe at Pinewood Studios (London) and Edinburg Napier University (UK).

As a musician worked with Armindo Neves, Paulo de Carvalho, Carlos do Carmo, Rita Guerra e Carlos Barreto. Grava com os Balla, Sam e Olavo Bilac (Santos e Pecadores), António Mardel (com Rui Veloso) e Pluma. As a composer and sound designer has worked TV content for channels RTP, TVI, Sic Notícias, TVCine, MOV HD, TPA, TMN, CGD, Banco BIG.

Filipe Vale

Started as an independent filmmaker and film editor. After graduating from Cinema in Universidade Lusófona and directing a couple a short films started a career as a teacher. Since then teaches editing and film language in Universidade Lusófona and coordinates internal production and external collaborations for film production. Also the work in the school is the main occupation, still edits film, mainly fiction. The curriculum include features, shorts, documentaries, music videos and commercials.

Gonçalo Galvão Teles

Gonçalo Galvão Teles graduated from the University of Lisbon with a Law Degree before traveling to the United States to complete the Master’s Program in Screenwriting at the prestigious University of Southern California (USC). Upon returning to Portugal, his first produced screenplay, the animated short “The Suspicion”, went on to win the Cartoon D’Or for Best European Animation of the year 2000.

Since then, Gonçalo has developed a career as writer, director and producer of more than twenty films and is presently directing his new feature film “Ice”, scheduled for released in the Spring of 2014. He is a full time professor at the film department at Universidade Lusófona.

João Canijo

João Canijo is one of the most prominent Portuguese filmmakers and stage directors of his generation. From 1980 to 1985 he worked as an assistant director to Manoel de Oliveira, Wim Wenders, Alain Tanner and Werner Schroeter, among others. Since 1998, João Canijo has a number of films that made him one of the most important Portuguese filmmakers. “In the Darkness of the Night” or “Misbegotten” show his interest in the investigation of Portuguese identity.

“Blood of My Blood”, one of his last feature film, was applauded by critics and public, and was present in numerous festivals, and was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. He has also been working in theatre and television. João Canijo films have been showed in numerous film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin or San Sebastian. João Canijo holds a Master degree in directing from the Lisbon School of Theatre and Film.

Hedisson Mota

Composer and music producer for record and television productions. Lecturer at the University of Aveiro and Lusofona University of Humanities and Technology (Lisbon) in the field of audio production. Holds a degree in Musicology (Nova University of Lisbon) and Masters degree in Multimedia Communication (Open University - Lisbon). Currently developing a doctoral research project on record production at the University of Aveiro/ INET-md. Visiting researcher at CICANT (Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies

Marta Vaz de Sousa

Lawyer with training in Information Law (Lisboa), Scriptwriting (Lisboa), Marketing & International Distribution (Spain), Film marketing (México), Pitching (Lisboa), Management and legal aspects in cinema production (Athens). I have been working with Portuguese companies in the audiovisual sector since 1998, primarily in production and distribution. I Initially participated in the making of several feature films, contributing in the areas of legal consultanting, development, financing, post-production coordination and European programmes management for different production companies.

From 2005 to 2008, I was production manager for cinema, TV and advertising, already focusing on distribution and sales. Working both as an inhouse executive and as a freelancer, I have accumulated experience in productions as diverse as features by Manoel de Oliveira (2005), Christophe Honoré (2003) and Ivo Ferreira (1999). Since 2008, collaborations in the distribution process and international sales for feature films, documentaries, tv programmes and telenovelas have seen me represent in festivals and markets such as American Film Market, Asian Film Market, Cannes Film Market, European Film Market, MIPCOM, MIPDOC, MIPTV, RioMarket, Berlinale, Cannes Film Festival, Cineport, Montreal World cinema festival, Rio International Film festival. Collaborations with prodution companies include: Arquipélago Filmes, National Geographic Channel Portugal, Utopia Filmes, Filbox, Clap Filmes, Madragoa Filmes, Semba Comunicação, Samesame, Valentim De Carvalho Multimedia, Bosque Secreto, Utopia Filmes, Rosa Filmes, Atalanta Filmes, Medeia Filmes.

Manuel José Damásio

Manuel is a full professor and the head of the film and media art department at Lusófona University. He obtained his tenure in 2011 from Minho University in Portugal and holds a PhD in media studies from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has worked as a trainer, consultant and producer in the audiovisual industry at a European and international level for more than twenty years and has a strong past experience as head researcher and project manager in several national and European research and development projects.

Rafael Martins

Rafael Manuel Patrão Tavares Antunes Martins, is a PhD student of Communication Sciences at Universidade Lusófona, while maintaining is professional activity at the Portuguese Media Group Impresa as Coordinator of New Digital Formats. Has a Bachelor in Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication from Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, has a Masters Degree in Film Studies from the same University. He attended several Postgraduate Studies and Specialisations in Content Marketing With T Brand Studio at The School of The New York Times, Film Studies at SFZE, Hungary, Collaborative Screenwriting and Transmedia Storytelling at Digital Media Summer Institute, University of Texas / FCSH - UNL, Immersive video storytelling at UC Berkeley, Postgraduate studies in the European Course in Entrepreneurship for the Creative Industries, Postgraduate studies in "Elements of Journalism” at Universidade Lusófona.

He is an associate professor in the Bachelor of Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias and at the International Masters Kino Eyes. He is an integrated researcher in the CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies, and in the project RETHINK-Alternative Narratives For Violent Extremism.

He directed and produced the Transmedia project "Lápis Azul" on censorship in Portugal: "Lápis Azul won the Sophia Prize of the Portuguese Academy of Cinema, and the prize for the best screenplay at the Portuguese Film Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português. The project “Lápis Azul" was chosen to integrate the project "Visualising Cultures" promoted by Brown University and MIT.

Rui Cardoso Martins

Rui Cardoso Martins is a writer, screenwriter and chronicler. He is known for "A Herdade", "Em Câmara Lenta", "Duas Mulheres", "A Espia". He was the co-founder of Produções Fictícias and creator of several drama and comedy tv series.

Tobias Frühmorgen

Tobias Frühmorgen is a filmmaker, researcher and film lecturer.

As a film lecturer, he teaches in Creative Production and European Film Heritage, and project tutoring and thesis supervision at Lusófona University Lisbon (PT) for the European Master Program KinoEyes (PT_UK_EE_IRL) as well as the Master Film Studies and Cinema Bachelors. He also works in exchange programs like Looking China (PT_CN_KOR_RU_HU_BRA) and research programs like Filmterm (EE_FI_DE_PT), future.film.education (DE_HU_PT), C-Accelerate (FI_PT_BEL_EE), Cyanotypes (DK_PT_IRL_AUT_NL_CZ_DE), and FilmEU Research-Innovation-Transfer (EU). Since 2020 he is also part of the curriculum, pedagogy and artistic research development of the European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts – FilmEU as well as project supervisor for a yearly pilot and coordinator for the joint research project (PT_BE_IRL_EE) on Artificial Intelligence and GTP-3. From 2021 onwards, he is researching on his artistic based PhD at the Filmuniversity Babelsberg (DE) about “Creative Artificial Intelligence – Writing a screenplay with AI“.

Tobias is and has been working as a film lecturer at many universities and academies, amongst them the RuhrUni Bochum, MetFilmschool Berlin, Dekra University for Applied Science, Schnitt-Akademie Berlin, and the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität Munich. For 10 years he has been the leading lecturer of the film department at Athanor Akademie Germany.

His own works as a director and/or editor include a variety of feature films, short films, television, art and music videos. His film Menschenkörper (2004) was screened at more than 25 festivals worldwide. Among his editing works is the restoration and re-editing for Yilmaz Güney‘s YOL – The Full Version (2017) which premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2017.

Tobias also works a story analyst for international feature screenplays and is a certified Green Consultant for film productions.