Diana Andringa is a Portuguese journalist, born in Angola (Dundo, Lunda Norte, 21/8/1947). She came to Portugal as a child, and, after concluding her secondary education, she enrolled in Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine. An activist in the associative student press, she ended up leaving Medicine for Journalism and, in 1968, she joined the Vida Mundial magazine, which she later left as part of a collective termination. Unemployed, she worked as a copywriter in advertising. Arrested by the political police in January 1970, accused of aiding Angola’s fight for liberation, she was sentenced to 20 months in prison. After that, she returned to journalism. Between 1972 and 1973, she lived in France, where she studied Sociology at the University of Vincennes, a degree she did not conclude. Following the Revolution in April 1974, she returned to Vida Mundial, and, in 1978, she joined RTP, where, years later, she took her first steps in documentary film-making. At present, she is an independent documentarian. She obtained a PhD in Sociology in 2013.

FILMOGRAPHY

1979 – A Década das Vacas Magras

1985 – Iraque, o país dos dois rios

1989/92 – Geração de 60, série documental de 6 programas de 50’

1993 – O Caso Big Dan’s

1993 – Violação numa comunidade portuguesa

1996 – Vergílio Ferreira: retrato à minuta

1996 – Corte de Cabelo: História de amor

1996 – Lisboa, anos 90

1996 – Fonseca e Costa: A descoberta da vida, da luz – e da liberdade

1996 – David Mourão-Ferreira: retrato com palavras

1996 – Rómulo de Carvalho e o seu amigo António Gedeão

1997 – António Ramos Rosa: Estou vivo e escrevo Sol

1997 – Jorge de Sena: uma fiel dedicação à honra de estar vivo

1997 – José Rodrigues Miguéis: um homem do povo na história da República

1999 – China, 1999: Retrato em Movimento

2001 – Em demanda do Grão-Cataio ou Reinos do Tibet (co-autoria de Alfredo Caldeira)

2001 – Da Matemática como Arte da Diplomacia e Observatório de Pedra

2002 – Timor-Leste: O sonho do crocodilo

2005 – Era uma vez um arrastão

2005 – Este é o nosso sangue, a nossa vida

2006 – Regresso ao País do Crocodilo

2007 – As duas faces da guerra (co-autoria e co-realizado com Flora Gomes)

2009 – Dundo, memória colonial

2010 – Tarrafal: Memórias do Campo da Morte Lenta

2015 – Operação Angola: Fugir para Lutar