Filipa Bossuet

Filipa Bossuet (1998) uses performance, painting, photography and experimental video to portray identity processes, blackness, memory and healing. Her transdisciplinary work is affirmed in Mankaka Kadi Konda Ko, a concept presented in a 360º virtual solo installation, developed independently and branching out into the group exhibition Interferências, at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), opening space for the concept to be continued academically and applied in art-education laboratories with children and adults. She ponders through the investigative influences of her formation in Communication Sciences, as well as her master studies in Migrations, Inter-Ethnicities and Transnationalism, creating dialogues and opening questions as gaps between fields of knowledge.

Joana Petiz

Actress*Creator. Worked with Bestiário, Diana de Sousa, Michael de Oliveira, Nuno M. Cardoso, Tatiana Ramos, among others. Wrote, with Patrícia Deus, the play Estéril. She won the Linha de Fuga grant, with the solo WASTE and LOBBY from Mala Voadora with the collective creation Feeling Blue. She is interested in research as a motto for creation. Her work revolves around doubt and its decoding through the superposition of symbols. Her instinct is raw, yet she is well-mannered, hence her delicacy.

João Cachola

Born in Lisbon, January 1995. Completed the acting course at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais (2013) and has a degree in theater from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (2016). He has been in plays by Carlos Avilez, Leonardo Garibaldi, Pedro Caeiro, Álvaro Correia, Tito Asorey, Maria João Vicente, Daniel Gorjão, Gonçalo Carvalho, Tiago Mateus, Carlos J. Pessoa, Lúcia Moniz & Paulo Quedas, John Romão, João Estima & Rita Delgado, André Murraças and Leonor Buescu. In cinema he has worked with António Mendes, Fernando Vendrell, Sydney Buchan, Vicente Alves do Ó, Miguel Munhá, Carlos Conceição, Patrícia Neves Gomes, António da cacunha. He does voiceovers and dubbing for cinema and television. Founding member of the company As Crianças Loucas.

Jorge Neto

Jorge Neto is an actor, singer, and director who has been gaining prominence in international film festivals. In 2020, he was selected for the Berlinale Talents. In 2023, Jorge Neto premiered the film “The Stranger” at the Berlin Film Festival and starred in the film “Solos” at the Cannes Film Festival. He also received the best actor award at the Cine PE festival for his performance in the feature film “Casa Izabel”. He starred in the film “Primeiro Ato”, which was in the Ammodo Tiger Competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and at the BFI in London. A graduate of the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema with an exchange degree at the University of São Paulo (USP), he has acted in several film projects and worked in TV series such as “Pico da Neblina” from HBO directed by Fernando Meirelles and André Novais and “LOV3” from Amazon Prime. Theater: “Moçambique”| Mala Voadora, SPA/RTP Award and “The Lion King” from Broadway directed by Julie Taymor, with musical adaptation by Gilberto Gil. As screenwriter and director, Jorge codirected the visual project “Derreter” alongside Flora Dias. He is now developing his new project “EMBU ARA AMA”.

Lara Mesquita

Lara Vanessa Cossa Mesquita, Lisbon 1986. She inherited Mozambique from her mother and Pico Island from her father. She grew up in Barreiro, where she studied science in high school. Attended degree courses in Psychology (ISPA – 2005) and Law (Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa – 2007/09). In 2009 she moved to Lisbon. The following year she finishes the training course for actors at In Impetus. She has a degree in Theatre – Actors Branch, from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (2016). She has been working as an actress since 2012. Highlights the collaboration in film with Tiago Guedes, in theater with Luís Miguel Cintra, Griot and Rodrigo Francisco. In 2021 she premiered her first authorial creation Sempre Que Acordo. The homonymous text that she wrote for this show won her the New Female Authorship Dramaturgy Award. She is the artistic director of PARROTRECORD, a cultural association founded in April 2022.

Paula Lovely

Paula Lovely inhabits a Queer body in which vindicatory practices -such as direct action- take on other meanings by crossing other languages. The existential urgency can no longer be dissociated from the collapse of capitalist and post-industrial society, which places us on the edge of the abyss and superimposes the finitude of the individual to the fate of the whole species. In this journey, the protagonism of dissident subjectivities reveals the revolutionary power of intimacy and collective empowerment.