Arts Division
Ph. D. Student
Graduate
San Francisco, CA
Film and Digital Media
Inês is a Portuguese nonfiction filmmaker, editor, and researcher. She is originally from Lisbon, Portugal, but is currently based in/between San Francisco and Santa Cruz, CA. Her research-creation work is interested in the promise of archival cinema as a form of intimate, crucial engagement engagement with history, and her film work attempts to address ideas of temporality, agency, and visibility within the archive through speculative and ethnographic engagements with the nonfiction form.
Her short films have screened in film festivals in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. Most recently, her short film "Home, Revised", a meditation-manifesto on the process of working with and appropriating home movie archives from her home country, won the Fernando Lopes Award for Best Portuguese First Film in the 2022 edition of Doclisboa. She was also one of the ten filmmakers selected to participate in European Film Promotion's FUTURE FRAMEs program at the 2023 edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and was a 2022-2023 SFFILM FilmHouse filmmaker-in-residence.
Inês has a BA in Communication Sciences, majoring in Cinema and Television Studies (2015) and an MA in Anthropology, Specialization in Visual Cultures (2022) from NOVA University of Lisbon, and an MFA in Documentary Film & Video Production (2019) from Stanford University. Her work has received financial and artistic support from SFFILM (2022-2023) and ICA (Institute for Cinema and Audiovisual, Portugal) (2022-2024), and from the "la Caixa" (2023-2025), FLAD (2024) and the Calouste Gulbenkian (2018-2019) foundations. She was also a Fulbright grantee (2017-2019).
documentary studies; feminist cinema; archival cinema/practices; visual anthropology; documentary filmmaking; experimental cinema; ethnography and ethnographic methodologies; autotheoretical interdisciplinarities; postcolonial theory; documentary theatre; history and anthropology of science, medicine, gender
2024
UCSC Film and Digital Media Department Travel Fund
UCSC Florence French Fund
UCSC Film and Digital Media Summer Fellowship
FLAD Luso-American Development Foundation Grant for Archival Research
2023
"la Caixa" Foundation Fellowship for Postgraduate Studies Abroad (2023-2025)
European Film Promotion's FUTURE FRAMES: Generation NEXT of European Cinema @ Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2022
Honorable Mention - Porto/Post/Doc Film Festival 2022 - "Home, Revised"
Fernando Lopes Award - Best First Portuguese Firlm - Doclisboa Film Festival 2022 - "Home, Revised"
SFFILM FilmHouse Residency (2022-2023)
2018
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant for Professional Development in the Arts (2018-2019)
2017
Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies (Masters) in the US (2017-2019)
