Miguel Clara Vasconcelos (Lisbon, 1971), professor and script consultant for cinema and television, taught screenwriting at the Nova University Lisbon (FCSH). He has been invited several times as a mentor and consultant for the Guiões Festival - Portuguese Language Screenplay Festival, and as a jury member at international film festivals. At the same time, he writes, directs and produces, with several national and international awards in literature and cinema. His filmography includes The Love Circus (Sub-Ti Award, Torino, 2018), Voices Through Me (Screenplay Award, GUIÕES Festival, 2018), Silent Meeting (Best Film, Indielisboa, 2017), Vila do Conde Extended (Brive, 2015), The Golden Triangle (Best Film, Curtas de Vila do Conde, 2014) and Mya’s Universe (World of Maps Award, Capalbio Cinema, 2011). As a writer, he has published short stories, poetry and essays (Young Creator, Art & Ideas Portuguese Club). He has also written and directed theatre (Little Dog Crimes, Solitude, Angst and Fall, 1/2 Guilty) and had a brief but remarkable experience in journalism (Público newspaper).
He holds a Master's degree in Film Studies from the University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle, and has a degree in Art (Escuela Superior de Arquitectura y Bellas Artes, Universidad Europea de Madrid), Literature (University of Lisbon and University of Coimbra) and Economics (Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão).
As well as Portugal, where he currently lives, he has lived in Mozambique, Spain and France, working with people from many countries and cultures, learning other ways of being in life and other visions of the world. He enjoys cycling, swimming in the sea and playing chess.
Patricia Geula, born in Kenya, 1995, she garnered recognition by winning the Nairobi Film Festival Writer’s Prize 2022 for the feature film "The Water Calls to You" and was selected to participate in the Durban FilmMart, 2022. Her script for the short film "Whispers from my Mother" was selected for the Durban Talent 2021 program. Most recently, she won the script pitch competition with her film Zêzere at 39th International Interfilm Film Festival script, Berlin.
She worked for several years under the umbrella of AFROBUBBLEGUM, a collective of African artists whose ambition is to create fun, fierce and frivolous work. She has also collaborated with diverse organizations on the development of socially relevant documentaries, notably: Namati; Vivid Story, a NYC-based creative studio; Akili Dada, Kenya; Spring strategies, Netherlands; Bloomberg, Kenya.
Patricia now navigates between Portugal and Kenya; centering her work on the intricate balance between the harsh and beautiful complexities of human existence and its ephemeral nature. She loves to take long walks and lay on grass, where more often than not, she dreams of having a pet cow called Baba.