Biography

Ana emerged as a filmmaker after a successful career as an actor in her native Portugal. In 2007 she completed her Fine Arts Degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon. Here she developed her passion for the power of the visual image in photography and film, winning the Bienal Jovens VaLoures for her work “Love_in_Progress” and taking part in the Bienal 

Internacional de Artes Plásticas e Design Industrial da Marinha Grande with her work “Espera”; for which she was given an honourable mention. In 2013 she completed her MA in Filmmaking at London Film School. Her short film “No Mar” (At Sea) was selected to XXI Caminhos Film Festival – 2015. Her documentary Laundriness was nominated for