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.