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Elsa Mendes
Elsa Mendes is the National Coordinator of the National Cinema Plan at the Directorate-General for Education (Lisbon) since 2014. PhD in Letters - Cultural Studies, specializing in North American Studies - Film Studies (University of Lisbon). Master's degree in Art History - specializing in Contemporary Art History (FCSH - Nova University of Lisbon). Works at the Directorate-General for Education (DGE) since 2014. Teaching activity between 1983 and 2014. Integrated researcher in the Research Group, Media and Cultural Mediations (CEMRI - Open University).
Full member of the Jury in the Competitions of the Portuguese Film and Audiovisual Institute (ICA), in Master's and Doctoral academic research projects and in several Film Festivals. Member of the Portuguese Film Academy. Participates in several Scientific Committees and Honorary Committees in the field of film and audiovisual media. Co-coordinates the Cinema and Education group at the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM). Member of the Pedagogical Committee of the Association of History Teachers (APH). Has published her doctoral thesis, *The Cross, the Sword and the Exorcist: Representations of History in the Cinema of Cecil B. DeMille* (2015).
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Vasco Pinto Leite
Vasco Pinto Leite was born in Lisbon on April 6, 1936. He graduated in 1959 with a degree in civil engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico. Alongside his professional activity as an engineer, from the second half of the 1960s until 1974, he dedicated himself to the production and distribution of non-professional films, with screenings and debates throughout the country, as well as to the organization of the activity in Portugal and in the territories of Angola and Mozambique, and also to the international relations of the movement.
He is the author of short films that have won several national and international awards.
For television he produced the series “Memória Audiovisual” (1987 to 1989), “A Casa Sagrada de Malangatana” (1995) and “Encontros de África” (2001).
He has published several literary works, most notably the book "The Corpus Delicti - The Idea of the Future and the Portuguese Cultural Question" (2013), a reflection on the Portuguese cultural question from the period immediately before and after April 25th.
He is a member of the Presidency of the "Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation" and co-founder of the "MPPM - Movement for Rights".
"Of the Palestinian People and for Peace in the Middle East."
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Luisa Homem
Born in 1978, Luisa Homem is a filmmaker, editor, and founding partner of the production company TERRATREME Filmes. She currently lives in Lisbon. She studied Communication Sciences – Cinema at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon, and at Paris 8 University. As part of the Creativity and Artistic Creation Program of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, she participated in a documentary filmmaking course at Ateliers Varan. She has directed art films within the FCSH Film Creation Laboratory, several institutional films, and a television series for RTP2 about art museums in Portugal – A DAY AT THE MUSEUM. She co-directed two documentaries, THE CITIES AND THE EXCHANGES, with Pedro Pinho, and SÃO TOMÉ: ON THE TRAIL OF THE NATURALISTS, with Tiago Hespanha. She collaborated on the screenplay, art direction, and editing of the feature film THE NOTHING FACTORY, directed by Pedro Pinho. As an editor, she has collaborated with several filmmakers, including João Vladimiro, Inês Sapeta Dias, Leonor Noivo, Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra, Frederico Lobo, Pedro Pinho, Tiago Hespanha, Leonor Teles, among others. She is currently developing a film about the geographer Suzanne Daveau, writing a screenplay for her first feature film, participating in the writing of a new screenplay by Pedro Pinho, and is co-director and teacher in the Cinema/Moving Image course at Ar.co.
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John Amaro Gomes
João Gomes graduated in film editing and directing from ESTC and in Sociology from UNL. Since 2011, he has produced, directed, and written a dozen cinematographic and audiovisual works. Notable works include “Couto Mixto” (2023), a short film distinguished with 5 awards and wide international circulation, and “Noite de Santo António” (2015), his master's thesis project which earned him honors and several international selections.
All of his works have been shown on RTP, including his first film, the documentary “Natália, A Diva Tragicomica” (2011), and the documentary series “Filhos de Tuga” (2024), which surpassed half a million viewers. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he is also a film critic, educator, and cultural programmer, having founded the Cinalfama International Film Festival in 2009, of which he remains artistic director.