He was born in Mozambique in 1965 and graduated in Film Directing from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon, where, in 2010, he completed the first year of his master’s degree in Cinematographic Narratives. He has worked as a film, theater, television and dance producer. He co-founded Eira, a Portuguese contemporary dance production company, in 1993, and was Production Coordinator for Porto 2001 – European Capital of Culture. Since 2003, he has been the artistic director of the Temps d’Images Portugal Festival and, in 2004, he created the production company DuplaCena. In March 2008, the Portuguese Commissioner for Expo Zaragoza 2008 invited him to develop, design and produce a work to be presented at the event. As a producer and artistic director, the following projects stand out: producer of the film Silêncio (2007) by F. J. Ossang, which won the 2007 Jean Vigo prize and was part of the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival; executive producer of the show OLA KALA (2007) by the company Les Arts Sauts; production and programming of the first and second anniversary of the Berardo Collection Museum (2008 and 2009); camera operator for Jerusalem (2009), with music by Vasco Mendonça, libretto by Gonçalo M. Tavares and staging by Luís Miguel Cintra; programming of the 35th anniversary celebrations of FUSO – Annual International Video Art Festival in Lisbon, from 2009 to the present; programming of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the 25th of April by the Lisbon City Council. Tavares and directed by Luís Miguel Cintra; production director of FUSO – Lisbon’s Annual International Video Art Festival from 2009 to the present; programmer of the Lisbon City Council’s 35th Anniversary of April 25th celebrations (2009); curator, programmer and executive producer of the exhibition Amália, Um Coração Independente (October 2009 – February 2010); producer of Teresa Garcia’s film A Tempestade (2010); producer of the EDP Foundation’s MNAA – Olhares Contemporâneos artistic residency (2011). He recently produced the films Silêncios do Olhar (2016) by José Nascimento, Feitos e Ditos de Nasreddin II (2016) by Pierre Marie Goulet, A Portuguesa (2017) by Rita Azevedo Gomes and Brisa Solar by José Nascimento.

Maria João Garcia (b. 1974) was a dancer with the Companhia de Dança de Almada (1990-98), took the 2nd Contemporary Dance Performers Course at Fórum Dança (1998-2000) and continued to work regularly as a performer until the mid-2000s. She has been creating dance/theatre/performance shows since 1995 – since 2000 with the Ninho de Víboras Association (Almada), of which she is a board member.
In production and management, he has worked with: Companhia Clara Andermatt, Granular, casaBranca, Companhia Caótica, O Rumo do Fumo, DuplaCena; and on projects by various artists and organizations (Cláudia Dias, o Bando, Máquina Agradável and Teatro da Cidade).
She was Paulo Ribeiro’s assistant director and producer for the Casa da Dança project in Almada (2019-20), and continues to collaborate regularly with Adriana Grechi and Amaury Cacciacarro, namely in the production direction of Transborda – Mostra Internacional de Artes Performativas de Almada.
She was a consultant for the Intermunicipal Community of Central Alentejo for the development and maintenance of the “Transforma-te” portal, an information and documentation center for cultural professionals and agents (2021-24). She designed a cultural training program for the Municipality of Coimbra aimed at local associations and agents, with editions in 2023 and 2024. An IEFP-certified trainer, she gives training at Academia Gerador and other institutions, mainly on associations.

Sardoal, 1993.

Actor, director and producer. He studied at the Professional Theater School of Cascais. He founded Inquietarte, where he staged and created various projects. As a producer he has worked with Luis Miguel Cintra, Jenna Thiam, Sara Inês Gigante, Teresa Coutinho, Mário Coelho, Sul, among others.

He is a member of the company Os Possessos, with Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro, Isabel Costa, João Pedro Mamede and Leonor Buescu.

He was Production Director at Primeiros Sintomas until 2022, where he was also responsible for programming at the Lisbon Arts Center.

She has a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon since 2013, and in 2015 she completed a master’s degree in Artistic Anatomy – Scientific Illustration at the same institution.
She began her career in production and curating with the annual exhibition 12×12, for which she collaborated between 2011 and 2019. Since 2020, she has been responsible for the administrative management of Duplacena’s projects and applications, where she is Production Director of the Temps d’Images Festival, Fuso – Lisbon International Video Art Festival, LOOPS, VEM – Videoarte Em Movimento and Duplacen77. This position she holds simultaneously with the executive production of the circulation of choreographer Aldara Bizarro and other artists through Horta Seca – Associação Cultural.
At the same time, since 2010 she has been working in the field of visual arts, participating in various solo and group exhibitions, including “De Olhos Bem Fechados” (2012) Centro Cultura Axa, “Questionable Memory” (2015) and “Process of Becoming” (2017), both at Allarts Gallery. At the same time, he has dedicated his time to printing techniques and traditional typography, having founded GRUMO Studio in 2018, where he develops artistic work and graphic design. He has been working as a freelance graphic designer since 2014, collaborating with various arts and architecture organizations and small international brands.
In 2022 he joined the team at the Francisco de Lacerda Association to produce the Encontros Sonoros Atlânticos Festival and the Francisco de Lacerda Composition Prize.