Portuguese filmmaker and film editor currently teaching editing at Lisbon Theatre and Film School. He taught media production at the University of Porto and Aveiro and was the scientific coordinator of a major video training program at the newsroom of the Portuguese news agency (LUSA). André was part of the first yearlong collaborative documentary program at the UnionDocs (Brooklyn, NY) where he then became the Collaborative Studio Director for one year – as part of his PhD research on Interactive Documentary. He has also been commissioned by several institutions to create films exploring archival footage and heritage. His films have been screened at Doclisboa, IndieLisboa, Visions du Réel, FIDMarseille, Jihlava, DOK Leipzig, CPH:DOX, DMZDocs, MoMA, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, TEDx Brooklyn among others. The Quest of the Schooner Creoula won the Doc Alliance Selection Award in 2014. He is now directing the documentaries Os Futebolistas Invisíveis and Lua.
FILMOGRAPHY
2017 – Dia 32, 85’
2013 – A Campanha do Creoula, 88’
2012 – From New York with Love, 58’
2010 – Uma na Bravo Outra na Ditadura, 46’
2010 – New York is a Big Apple, 10’