Vanessa R.

About

From the Brazilian Amazonia and refugee camps in Jordan to my neighbourhood: I'm a storyhunter. Independent Journalist since 2005, director, writer, radio and video reporter. I work on non fiction film such as documentaries and Multimedia Storytelling and contribute to several media outlets and production houses in Portugal and Brazil. I hold a Master in Journalism from Universidade do Minho and a Specialization in Documentary (Directing, Writing and Producing) from Academia Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo, Brazil, and Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de Cuba. My feature length documentary "Land's Baptism" about Brazilian emmigration has been awarded several prizes, such as Best Cinematography at Hollywood Women's Film Festival (2019). Capricorn, I was raised in Portugal; lived for 5 years in Brazil as foreign correspondent for Portuguese media (radio, print, online). In 2009 I traveled for 4 months in the Brazilian Amazonia in a professional project uncovering untold stories from Belem to Manaus. Lately I have been working in Mozambique and I've lived in Jordan (2013) to research and co-write the script for a documentary on Palestinian Refugees in Gaza Camp, in Jerash. I'm a PHD candidate on Communication For Development in Porto and I'm a Professor on Journalism at Universidade Lusófona do Porto. In 2014 I was awarded 2 prizes: 1) Literary Prize in the Literary Festival in Paraty, Brazil 2) Best Film (Tastes and Flavours) at Art&Tur - International Tourism Film Festival (Porto).

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