Ana Cabral, born in São Miguel, Azores, holds a degree and a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Porto. In parallel to her specialization, she was an actor in the film by Cláudia Varejão Lobo e Cão.

AnaMary Bilbao (PT/ES) born in Lisbon. Her work has been recently exhibited at Photo Basel, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Field Projects, Curiosa-Paris Photo, Galeria Avenida da Índia, MAAT, Opening-Arco Madrid, Leal Rios Foundation, MACE, PLMJ Foundation, among others. Bilbao’s films and videos have been screened in venues such as Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, Hangar, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Novo Negócio - ZDB. Currently lives between Lisbon and New York City.

Atelineiras is a transdisciplinary collective formed in 2020, in São Miguel, Azores, consisting of Beatriz Toste, Carolina Amado, Inês Falcão and Xico Xico.  

Within this collective, they seek to consolidate artistic structures informed by their own perspectives on collectivity, the approach to audiences and the free experimentation of artistic techniques that accompany the progress of each member of the collective. As Atelineiras promote events, performances, workshops, exhibitions and collaborations with other artists, collectives and associations, which reflect the collective’s goal: to intervene and shake the Azorean cultural panorama. Their work is based on the development of individuality, with the goal of reaching a sustainable and progressive collectivity, questioning more and more what is around them, as well as the insular feeling that accompanies and sustains everything they do.

Catarina Fernandes is a native of São Miguel. She is 36 years old. Transdisciplinary artist, she graduated in Fine Arts and in Socio-educational projects. She came across the performing arts in 2008, and in 2011 she dedicates to singing and composition. In 2012 she went to France to advance her studies. She uses video projection for the first time in 2017, but it is in 2022 that she falls in love with filming, directing and editing. She is interested in exploring the interchanges between different artistic expressions and considers intimacy and intuition as sources of inspiration. The feminist premise “people are political” is her guide.

Catarina Mourão studied Music, Law and Film (MA at the University of Bristol and PhD at the University of Edinburgh, with an FCT scholarship for both). Founder of AporDOC (Portuguese Documentary Association). She has been teaching Film and Documentary since 1998 in various undergraduate and Masters programs. Her main areas of research are memory, dreams, archives and autobiography. She is currently teaching on the MA in Arts and Multimedia at FBAUL.

Filipa Nobre and Maria Trindade are 20-year-old Portuguese audiovisual artists who are currently attending the Multimedia Art course at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Being the artists focus of the first one the personal, and the second one the technical process, the two of them quickly realized the potential they presented when working together. Thus, complementing the intimate with the detail, this duo has been producing unique pieces in the audiovisual world.

Francisco Lourenço is an artist and lives in Lisbon. Studied painting in the University of Lisbon. In addition to his artistic work, also works in cinema and animation. Participated in multiple exhibitions and video screenings, most recently in the experimental video screening “Video Club” at Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin (2023) and in the solo exhibition “Oito Colheres de Sono” at Teatro Luís de Camões in Lisbon (2023).

Gabriel Cardoso Andrade, born December 5, 2002, Porto. Showed interest for visual arts since a very young age. Finished a multimedia technician course at Escola Artística e Profissional Árvore, where he developed the passion for image in movement. Now, Gabriel is a student at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where he is studying for a degree in Cinema. He’s passionate about photography and always brings a camera everywhere to record moments.

Joana Lourenço is a visual artist and filmmaker from Lisbon. In 2024, she was granted a FLAD scholarship to do an artistic residency at Mono No Aware, in New York. One of her films was screened at the Anthology Film Archive in New York. Joana studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. She co-directed “Caravagyo” (2020), shown in Portugal, Switzerland, etc. In 2023 she co-directed “O Pomar”, a short fiction film, which premiered at IndieLisboa.

João Francisco Correia’s work focuses particularly on issues of temporality and notions of perception from memory. Its nature arises fundamentally through the reciprocal relationship between the act of remembering and forgetting. It is from this relationship that his artistic practice, strongly informed by Archaeology, History and Poetry, finds a starting point.

Luís Miranda is a film and video director/producer, screenwriter and instructor. Director of 135 films and videos (short and long form). Holds more than 800 credits in film and video production. Founder of the film production companies Miranda Filmes and Hiperfocal Filmes.

Luís Palma examines social and political issues, such as tensions occurring in the urban environments, industrial archeology or the occupation of territory, as well as portrait and landscape. Being one of the Portuguese photographers who have worked most intensely on these themes relating to territory, inequalities and the paradoxes associated with it. His work has been featured in several monographs and exhibitions, including Peripheral Landscapes, at Serralves Chapel, in 1998.

Maria Emanuel Albergaria, 1962, Ponta Delgada. Studied arts, social anthropology and education sciences. She was a primary school teacher (1989-2006). She worked on the television programs “Icarus” and “Sesame Street” (1990-91) and directed “O Rapto dos Gémeos das Cavernas” (1st Prize of National School Video Festival, 1997). She was coordinator of the Educational Service at the Museum Carlos Machado, (2006-11). Among her work she wants to highlight the installation “Uma Casa na Floresta” Ponta Delgada (2011), the participation in the educational services MUNHAC - National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon (2011-13); the coordination of the team working on  Intangible Cultural Heritage, at the Carlos Machado Museum. She also develops art-community projects: “Caminhos do Chá”, “Sete Cidades - Além da Paisagem” and “So that the Sky Does Not Fall on Us” (2013-18); Co-author of works: “Laudalino da Ponte Pacheco, o fotógrafo da Maia” (2021) and “Chá nas Açores, uma tarde na Gorreana”, 2023, Araucária editions. Co-curator of the exhibition “Laudalino da Ponte Pacheco, the photographer who was there”, MCM, 2024. She is a member of the technical team of the National Plan for the Arts, since 2019.

Maria João Sousa was born in Porto. She is a filmmaker currently living in São Miguel, in the Azores. She graduated in Psychology and later in Cinema from the Escuela Septima Ars in Madrid (2011). She applies psychology to film, motivated by behavioral and psychosocial contexts, assuming the need to observe, inform and share sensations that lead to interventions mediated by art. Founder and artistic director of projects for the Cultural Association Symbolic Symbol.

Mário Espada was born in Lisbon in 1995. He studied piano at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon. In 2010 he joined the António Arroio Artistic School and continued his film studies at E.S.T.C., where he specialized in Editing. Since 2018 Espada works at Kintop as an editor [Rising Sun Blues (2022), Renata Ferraz; Journey to the Sun (2021), Ansgar Schaefer and Susana de Sousa Dias (IDFA)]. Other editing works include Paradise (2021), by Sérgio Tréfaut and Ciguatera (2022), by Diana Policarpo (Venice Biennale).

Mauricio Dias (1964, Rio de Janeiro) and Walter Riedweg (1955, Lucerne) have been collaborating as an artists’ duo since 1993 and live in Rio de Janeiro. Dias studied in printmaking in Rio de Janeiro, Basel and New York, while Riedweg trained as a teacher and music educator in Lucerne, and in theater improvisation and performance in Verscio (Switzerland) and New York. The artists are working with video, installation, photography, drawing, objects, text and performance. Their work has been shown in Brazil and abroad in exhibitions and in international Art Biennials, such as: São Paulo (1998), Venice (1999,) documenta12 (2007), Buenos Aires (2017), Busan (2018). They are represented by Galeria Vermelho in São Paulo, and Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain in Paris.

Pauliana Valente Pimentel, 1975. Did the Photography course from the Gulbenkian Programme for Creativity and Artistic Creation. Was a member of the [Kameraphoto] collective. Has published several books and films. In 2015, received the Visual Arts Award from SPA. In 2016, was nominated for the NOVO BANCO Prize. Collaborates with international galleries. Her work is held in private and institutional collections, notably the Calouste Gulbenkian and EDP Foundation, MAAT, Novo Banco, and the Portuguese State Collection.

Renata Bueno has lived in São Paulo - Brazil, Weesp - Holland and currently resides in Montemor-o-Novo - Portugal. She regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions and has published more than 50 books. The artist makes videos, drawings, performances and stone sculptures. Coexistence with others is a characteristic of her work, which seeks to relate in a poetic way. In Brazil, Holland and Portugal, she has created projects featuring portraits and life stories of older people.

Rita Ruivo was born in Faro in 2002, Portugal, currently based in Lisbon. She hold a HND (Higher National Diploma) in Photography from Escola de Tecnologias Inovação e Criação (ETIC). Her practice in image making embodies the use of photography darkroom procedures to approach fashion in loud colorful manners.

Sandra Medeiros was born in 1996, in the island of São Miguel, Azores. She finished the Scientific and Humanistic course in Visual Arts. Between 2014 and 2023, she was distinguished with honorable mentions and worked in several projects, including collective exhibitions and graphics, such as “The Travels of Life”, “Fragility”, “The Beautiful”, “Poetry Damned”, “Lord Holy Christ of Miracles - Drawings of the Party”. Currently, she works in photography.

Willian da Fonseca Júnior, was born and raised in Volta Redonda, in the interior of the state of Rio de Janeiro and graduated in physical education from UniFoa (Brazil). As a child he became orphaned of both parents and moved to Lisbon in 2019, where he worked in various places and in different professions. He writes poetry.  Currently he lives in São Miguel in the Azores archipelago and teaches soccer to children at a sports center in Rabo de Peixe.