In this BMA Lab, Nu Boyana Portugal invites different agents of the country's agents of film production in the country to present the different stages involved in making a film. The different experiences of each speaker will be used to explore the processes that exist from pre-production to distribution.

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      Nu Boyana Portugal was born in Braga, in 2018, as a VFX studio, and since then has naturally grown into a cross-production company with work in advertising, television, and film. Forming the company's portfolio are projects such as The Protégé, Jolt, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Hellboy, Rambo: Last Blood or Angel has Fallen.

      Confirmed speakers: Fernando Vasquez, Ana Almeida, Pedro Domingo, José Pedro Lopes, Duarte Ferreira and Sofia Noronha

      Target audience: people interested in cinema, audiovisual students, people starting their careers, and professionals in the audiovisual and cinema fields

      Number of participants: 40

      Duration: 7 hours aprox.

       

      Program:

      Sofia Noronha

      Sofia Noronha is a producer and founder of the production company Sagesse. At 18, she went to London to study performing arts where she discovered her passion for the film industry. In 2020, she founded the film and TV production company Sagesse, based in Lisbon. This production company is responsible for the financing and distribution of several national and international projects and collaborates with productions from Netflix, BBC, Vertigo Films and HBO.

      Pedro Domingo 

      With over fifteen years of experience in the world of 3D, Pedro Domingo began his career in the animated film Tadeo Jones, at Lightbox Entertainment and later at Nu Boyana Film Studios in Bulgaria. Throughout his career, he has worked on several successful productions, such as MPC's The Jungle Book, which won the Oscar for best visual effects. Pedro Domingo is the CEO of Nu Boyana Portugal, based in Braga.

      Duarte Ferreira 

      Duarte Ferreira works in the areas of sound direction, sound directing, editing, mixing and sound design for cinema, television, advertising and the web and has collaborated in several national and international productions. In the last 10 years, he has also recorded live performances and music, where he regularly collaborates with Lovers&Lollypops. As a sound artist he has exhibited at the Tremor festival (Ponta Delgada) and Ilhéstico (Funchal).

      Ana Almeida

      Ana Almeida works as a producer for television and cinema and has been a videographer for Público and Porto Editora. She founded Anexo 82 with director José Pedro Lopes. "A Floresta das Almas Perdidas"(2017) was the first feature film of this audiovisual production company and had a wide distribution around the world. Ana Almeida coordinated post-production and edited the short film "Abeba" and is preparing the release of the documentary film "O Que Podem as Palavras" by Luísa Sequeira and Luísa Marinho.

      Fernando Vasquez

      With an academic background in cinema and journalism, Vasquez is the director of film programming at FEST - New Filmmakers | New Cinema, which takes place annually in Espinho. He also works frequently with several independent producers and directors in the definition of international film distribution strategies and has been a member of several juries for film competitions, projects and pitching sessions such as Kort Film Festival (Norway), Valleta Film Festival (Malta), Primer Test and Rec Film Festival (Spain).

      José Pedro Lopes

      The filmmaker from Oporto has signed several fiction and advertising projects, namely with the production companies Anexo 82 and Infilms Portugal. "The Forest of Lost Souls", a horror film that gained cult status in genre cinema, was Lopes' debut in the world of feature films. In 2022, he signed several episodes of the television series "No Films" and integrates the team of the author's film distributor, Legendmain Filmes.