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Born in Lisbon in 1964. He completed the course of Video at IADE in 1987 and began to work as a freelancer in 1988, making videos for dance, drama and music shows. He was a scholarship student from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/FLAD in Film/Vídeo Arts, New York in 1991. In 1992 he represented Portugal in the area of video on Bienal de Jovens Criadores do Mediterrâneo in Valencia. He was a cameraman on “Ver Artes”, RTP2 show about visual arts and architecture, between 1994 and 1996. He collaborated with several visual artists and participated in many collective exhibitions. He is a founding-member of the Daltonic Brothers, duo of authors of satiric comic books, animated films and experimental films. He signed the Photography Direction and/or the camera work in several fiction films, documentaries and video clips (from directors such as Paulo Rocha, Rodrigo Areias, André Gil Mata, Jorge Quintela). He directed over 20 experimental films, mostly in the Super8 format, that were selected, displayed and distinguished in numerous shows and national and international festivals of this nature (DocLisboa, IndieLisboa, MotelX, Curtas Vila do Conde, Edinburgh FF, Roterdam IFF, New York Indie DocFest, International Cinema Show of São Paulo, among others).