Pedro de Filippis is a filmmaker from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Rejeito is his debut feature and underlines his research on post-colonialism. He graduated from the European MFA program DocNomads, for which he directed short documentaries in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Pedro is an alumnus of the Points North Fellowship (2019), where Rejeito won the Special …
Launched in 2019, First window is dedicated to documentary debuts and features short films of varying lengths, from young creators enrolled in art schools, university film programmes, filmmaking courses of any kind, or creating outside of any specific training environment. From 21 to 28 March, the thirteen films will be shown in theatres giving young …
Born in Luanda (Angola) in 1985, Paula Agostinho graduated in Performing Arts in 2007, in Lisbon (Portugal), while taking piano and singing lessons. Back in Luanda in 2013, she became a producer at Geração 80, producing commercials, music videos and institutional videos.
Born in 1974 in Portugal, Sandro Aguilar studied film at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. In 1998 he founded the production company O Som e a Fúria. His films have won awards at festivals, such as La Biennale di Venezia, Gijón, Oberhausen and Vila do Conde, and have been shown in Torino, Belfort, …