2D Animator with a background in traditional animation and experience working on both independent auteur films and Japanese animation productions. Her work has been featured in national and international film festivals and exhibitions.


Work experience in Japanese animation industry (Tonari Animation Studio)

2024 Layout and 2nd genga for Bye Bye, Earth, ep. 13, Liden Films, dir. Yasuto Nishikata
2024 Layout and 2nd genga for Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji, ep. 5, Domerica, dir. Kazuya Ichikawa
2023 2nd genga for Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, ep.10, MAPPA, created by Yuji Kaku


Work experience in independent animation cinema: auteur films and series

Background design and character animation (inbetweens) for The light through the shadows (in production), animated short film, Filmes do Gajo, dir. Mário Gajo

2024 Animation (rotoscope) for The Diaries of Thomaz de Mello Breyner, ep. 2, documentary series based on the book Thomaz de Mello Breyner, Relatos de uma Época, do final da Monarquia ao Estado Novo by Margarida de Magalhães Ramalho, LX Filmes, dir. Manuel Mozos and Luís Correia, 27’

2020 Key animation, inbetweening, and digital painting for Poise, animated short film, Filmes do Gajo, dir. Luís Soares, 7’

2019 Clean-up, additional sound design, and promotional materials for The boy and the owl, animated short film, Filmes do Gajo, dir. Mário Gajo, 12’


Education

2023 Ethnographic Film, NOVA FCSH
2021 Audio Production, Academia Gerador/Interferência
2015 BA in New Media Art (Traditional Animation), FBAUL


Extended learning

2018 The stories behind the films masterclass with Paul Driessen
2018 Music and animation masterclass with Koji Yamamura, Catherine Verhelst, and Hervé Tougeron
2016 Italian independent animation conference with Paola Bristot
2015 Animation and typography conference with Rastko Ćirić


Film festivals selections, screenings and exhibitions

2023 Fórum de Animação, animation projects pitching event

2022 Casa em Movimento: Session #8 Estados da Matéria, Casa Branca
2022 Casa em Movimento: Session #5 Geografias, Montemor-o-novo
2022 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand

2020 Grey Area, with Inês Apolinário, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon

2019 Sobre o fruto da máquina, Espaço Egeu, Lisbon
2019 FIVA Festival Internacional de Videoarte, São Luís
2019 Monstra Lisbon Animation Festival, Cinema São Jorge, Lisbon
2019 Shortcutz Lisbon: Session #337, O Bom, o Mau e o Vilão, Lisbon
2019 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand

2018 Avanca Film Festival, Aveiro
2018 Ymotion Festival de Cinema Jovem de Famalicão, Vila Nova de Famalicão
2018 Cutout Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Querétaro
2018 Festival It’s Happening, Escola Artística António Arroio, Lisbon
2018 Strasburg Film Festival, Strasburg
2018 Chorta Festival de curtas do Faial, Horta, Faial
2018 Locomoción Festival de Animación, Mexico City
2018 Alexandre Trauner Art/Film Festival, Szolnok
2018 Cinema no Estendal, Lisbon
2018 FUSO Video Art Festival, Lisbon
2018 Olhares do Mediterrâneo, Lisbon
2018 FEST New Directors New Films Festival, Espinho
2018 Fest Anča International Animation Festival, Žilina
2018 Festival Internacional de Animación La Truca, Cali
2018 Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro, Santa Maria da Feira
2018 Moving Image Arts International Short Film Festival, Toronto
2018 Breathe, with Tania Ferrão, Malapata Gallery
2018 Habitado, MUSA Sintra Arts Museum, Sintra

2017 Dia das Belas-Artes 181 Anos, FBAUL
2017 Condomínio Festival, Lisbon

2016 Cinema Português em Movimento, 51 film sessions in several villages of Portugal
2016 12x12, Atelier da Travessa, Lisbon
2016 100 anos do Museu Bordalo Pinheiro (1916-2016), Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, Lisbon
2016  Ensaio para uma exposição II, Galeria Associação 25 de Abril, Lisbon
2016 GAB-A 10th Edition, FBAUL
2016 I stood up... and never sat down again, Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon

2015, GAB-A 9th Edition, FBAUL


Awards

2018 Honourable Mention — Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro, Santa Maria da Feira


Collections

MUSA — Sintra Arts Museum


Work published in

2022 Beatbit: An Experimental Methodology for Teaching Animation Film

2019 O Cão Celeste, No. 7 to No. 13, Averno Editions
2018 Telhados de Vidro No. 23, Averno Editions


Articles

Diez proyectos a seguir del Fórum de Animação 2023. Radix Animación, September 2023.
Fórum da Animação 2023 anuncia sus proyectos finalistas
. Radix Animación, September 2023.
Curtas Metragens de Animação dos alunos da FBAUL na 4ª Edição do Cinema Português em Movimento
. ARTECAPITAL, July 2016.
I stood up and... never sat down again. ARTECAPITAL, November 2015.
Original character

The girlReference: Angel's Egg, Japanese animated film by Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano.

Kobe, original character

Untitled

Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru HonnōjiLayout for Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji (2024), anime TV series directed by Kazuya Ichikawa, ep. 5. Produced by Domerica.

Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji
    Layout for Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji (2024), anime TV series by directed Kazuya Ichikawa, ep. 5. Produced by Domerica.


    Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
    Genga for Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku (2023), anime TV series created by Yuji Kaku, ep. 10. Produced by MAPPA.


    Visual development

    Visual deveploment

    Stories from Mozambique (in development)Direction of Stories from Mozambique (in development), an animated documentary short film. Produced by Filmes do Gajo.