Short-form documentary
Twelve short films about housing, water and informal labour, screened at 20 festivals across Europe and Brazil.
Best Short Documentary, Lisbon Docs 2024.
DirectionEditingSound design
01Pillar
How I Work
The same three rules on every film, whether it's three minutes or ninety.
Stay long enough to be boring
I shoot for weeks, not days. A camera that has stopped being interesting stops changing how people behave.
Two of my films were shot across a full rental cycle of 14 months.
Observational
One image, then the whole system
Each project starts from a single visual anchor that the poster, titles and campaign are built around.
Poster series shortlisted at Porto Design Week 2024.
Art direction
Credit the neighbourhood
Local crews, local composers, local translators — paid, named, and in the credits.
38 local freelancers hired across four productions.
Ethics
02Body of work
Bodies of Work
Brand film & visual identity
Campaign films and identity systems for cultural institutions that don't want to look like everyone else.
Six seasons of campaign work for Cinema de Bairro.
Art directionTypographyColour
Photography & print
Long-form photo essays published as risograph zines, made with the people photographed.
Two print runs sold out; one held in the Serralves library.
35mmRisographPortraiture
03Product
Films
Maré Alta
Documentary · 74 min · 2024
Fourteen months with a fishing family in Setúbal as the harbour they've worked for three generations is redeveloped.
Sold to RTP2 and screened at 11 festivals; broadcast audience of 340,000.
FeatureDirectionCinematography
The Last Bakery on Rua do Norte
Short · 18 min · 2023
A short film about rent pressure, told entirely through one shop counter and the regulars who refuse to let it close.
Vimeo Staff Pick; 1.2M views.
ShortObservational
04Initiative
Community
Cinema de Bairro
Founder · 2019 — Present
A free outdoor screening series in Lisbon's eastern parishes, run with neighbourhood associations and a borrowed projector.
Grew from 40 attendees to 900 per summer season.
Screening seriesPartnerships
First Cut Lab
Mentor · 2022 — Present
Six-month editing mentorship for first-time documentary editors, most of them entering the industry without a film school network.
21 mentees; 9 now working full-time in post-production.
MentorshipPost-production
05Case study
Case Studies
A film with no commissioned broadcaster, built from a two-person crew and a family willing to let us stay. The work was getting it finished and then getting it seen.
Context
A working harbour scheduled for redevelopment, and a family that had agreed to be filmed over a full year.
Problem
No funding attached, and by month eleven we had 60 hours of footage and no route to an audience.
Approach
Cut a 9-minute festival short from the same material to test the story, then built the feature edit around the scenes that survived.
Solution
A self-financed festival run paired with a poster series shot on location, plus outreach to fishing cooperatives for local screenings.
Outcome
Broadcast sale to RTP2, 11 festival selections, and three screenings arranged by the community itself.
The family now runs the harbour association that negotiated the redevelopment terms.
DocumentaryDistributionCommunity
06Entry
Résumé
2018 — Present · Independent, Lisbon
Director & Creative Lead
Direction, editing and art direction across documentary and campaign work for cultural clients.
2015 — 2018 · Norte Films, Porto
Director of Photography
Second-unit and documentary camera work on series for RTP and Arte.
2012 — 2015 · Studio Vinte, São Paulo
Editor
Assistant and then lead editor on music documentaries and long-form brand work.
2012 · Universidade de São Paulo
BA, Cinema & Audiovisual
Thesis on observational documentary and neighbourhood portraiture.