Bruno Mendes da Silva is graduated in Cinema and Video in 1995 from School of Arts of Oporto (ESAP), got his post-graduation in Arts Management in 1998 from Macao Institute of European Studies (IEEM), got his PhD in Literature and Cinema in 2008 from University of the Algarve (UALG), Portugal and his Post PhD in Communication, Culture and Arts (Interactive Film) in 2016 also from UAlg. He is the Coordinator of Communication Sciences area at School of Education and Communication (ESEC) and the Director of the degree in Communication Sciences. He is the Vice coordinator of the Research Centre for Arts and Communication (CIAC). He was a TV Producer and Director from 1995 to 2000 at Teledifusão de Macau (TDM) and has been invited to International Art and Film Festivals such as Fresh (Thailand), Dokanema (Mozambique), Loop (Spain), Festival de la imagen (Colombia) , Ecologias Digitales (Colombia), The Scrip Road Macau (China) and FILE (Brazil). He has participated in 21 scientific projects (as investigator-in-charge or research member) and is the author of several books, book chapters and other scientific publications (over 70). It has several doctoral and master thesis orientations completed. He is the Director of the Journal Rotura – Communication Sciences and Arts . He has dedicated the last two decades to the research of the relations between Communication, Art and Technology and won the Ceratonia Scientific Award.

Eva Peydró has developed her professional work in the field of Philology, Neuro-linguistic

Programming, in specialised translation in modern art, cultural journalism, children’s literature and film criticism. For the last 12 years, she has contributed on the weekly cultural magazine Cartelera Turia, as a critic and columnist for the sections Material Sensible; and Sola en la oscuridad, reviewing films, premieres and international film festivals, as well as on other media such as Bianco e Nero, magazine of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2014, she founded the digital cultural magazine El Hype, published in Spanish and English, where she is the director and a contributor with the blog Director’s Cut. For several years, she has collaborated on the Cannes Film Festival chronicles for the Radio 3 (RNE) programme El Séptimo Vicio, and in 2021 she participated in the TVE documentary Women Without Censorship.

As a writer, she has published two children’s books, Las vacaciones de Saída, winner of the Martín Sarmiento prize, and El tesoro de Saída, winner of the Samaruc prize. She also co-authored the essay Ficciones las Justas; (an essay on the new morals in cinema, music and pornography), published in 2022.

As a member of the international federations FIPRESCI and FEDEORA, she has been on the juries of international film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Saint Petersburg, San Sebastian and Karlovy Vary, to name some.

Mariano Alejandro Tomasovic Ribeiro (Buenos Aires, 1993) is an Argentine writer based in Lisbon. His work has been published in journals and literary magazines from Portugal and Latin America. In 2018 he was awarded the Fnac Novos Talentos prize. Other texts by him have earned prizes and mentions in Spain and Argentina. _Bartlebyana_ (Língua Morta, 2020), his first book of short stories, explores the limits of storytelling and literary genres.

Rafaela Jacinto, actress, performer and poet, was born in 1994 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. She graduated in Theatre at the ESTC (Lisbon) in 2016 and specialized in History and Culture of Religions at the FLUL (Lisbon) in 2019. She collaborated with national and international theatre companies, as well as filmmakers.

Rodrigo Areias is a film director and producer. Has produced over 150 films, and has premiered in Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno and Annecy and has won over 350 international awards, including Best first film in Venice and Locarno, best film at Orizzonti, and best documentary in Venice. He was responsible for the film production of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture where film directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Aki Kaurismaki, Peter Greenaway, Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Victor Erice where included. As a director is now in post production of his 9th and 10th feature films.