André Gil Mata is part of the faculty of ESAP’s Cinema and Audiovisual Degree

From the 2nd semester of the current academic year (2022-23), André Gil Mata joins the teaching staff of the Cinema and Audiovisual bachelor degree course, teaching Directing II curricular unit from the 2^nd year.

Director, screenwriter, actor and director of photography (São João da Madeira, 1978). He studied mathematics and worked in photography and theater. He was the curator of the Luso-Brazilian Film Festival of Santa Maria da Feira between 2001 and 2008. Founded the photography and film lab Átomo47 and the film production company Bando à Parte. He directed the short films “Arca d’Água” (2009), “Casa” (2010) and “O Coveiro” (2012). “Captivity” (2012) received the DocAlliance award at Cannes (2013). “Kako sam se Zaljubio u Evu Ras” (2016) received the Special Mention in the international competition of FIDMarseille. In 2017 he directed the short film Num Globo de Neve (IndieLisboa 2017). He received his PhD in film directing from film.factory in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016). Drvo – The Tree (2018), his latest feature film, had its world premiere at Berlinale Forum 2018, with commercial release in Portuguese cinemas (2018) and in France (May 2021). His most recent medium-length film “Pátio do Carrasco” premiered in Competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival, co-produced by Rua Escura, a film cooperative he founded in 2020 in Porto. His work had been the subject of retrospectives at Batalha Centro de Cinema (February, Porto, 2023), Doc’s Kingdom Seminar (Arcos de Valdevez, 2019) and Luso-Brazilian Film Festival (Santa Maria da Feira, 2012). In 2023, was edited the book “O Cinema de André Gil Mata: Alguma Luz na Escuridão” (André Gil Mata’s Cinema: Some Light in the Darkness) was edited about his cinematographic work, first edition of Batalha Centro de Cinema.