Regina Pessoa

Director

BIOGRAPHIE

Portugal Director, scriptwriter, animator, illustrator Regina Pessoa was born in Coimbra, Portugal in 1969. She studied Painting at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. In 1999, she directed her first film, A Noite (The Night) using a technique of animated engraving on plaster plates.  Since then, working with a variety of animated engraving techniques, she has continued to create and direct auteur films such as História Trágica com Final Feliz (Tragic Story with a Happy End) in 2005, Kali le petit vampire  (Kali the Little Vampire) in 2012 and Tio Tomás, a Contabilidade dos Dias (Uncle Thomas Accounting for the Days) in 2019. Her films have since gone on to win over 150 awards at major international film festivals. In 2016 became Senior Lecturer at Animationsinstitut - FILMAKADEMIE, Germany. In 2018 became a Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2021, she was elected in 3rd place - and the 1st woman - in a list of the best 25 animation short filmmakers of the last 25 years, by a jury made up of 25 international leading academics, scholars, artistic directors and journalists, an initiative of Animac - Catalonia International Animation Film Festival - on the occasion of the celebration of its 25th anniversary. Regina expresses a distinctive and creative personal vision, not only in her films, but through her illustration, painting and drawing works. She is currently developing her next film, Mother Faces at Ciclope Filmes Studio owned by her and her partner and situated on the grounds of their charming Museum of Moving Image - Casa Museu de Vilar. SHORT FILMS Director, scriptwriter, animator 1999: A Noite (The Night), Portugal programme - Clermont-Fd 2002 2005: História Trágica com Final Feliz (Tragic Story with a Happy End), International Competition - Clermont-Fd 2006, Grand prix - Annecy 2006, Grand prix - SICAF (Seoul, South Korea) 2006 2012: Kali le petit vampire  (Kali the Little Vampire), Hiroshima Prize - International Animation Festival (Japan) 2012, National Competition and Young audience programmes - Clermont-Fd 2013 2019: Tio Tomás, a Contabilidade dos Dias (Uncle Thomas Accounting for the Days), Jury Award and Best original Music Award (for Normand Roger) - Annecy 2019, National Competition - Clermont-Fd 2020 EXHIBITIONS 1999: retrospective about the film A Noite (The Night) - Espinho, Covilhã (Portugal) 2005 - 2010: retrospective about the film História Trágica com Final Feliz (Tragic Story with a Happy End) - Stuttgart (Germany), San Sebastián (Spain), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Bergamo (Italy), Zagreb, Rijeka (Croatia), Porto, Vila do Conde, Faro, Abrantes, Caldas da Rainha, Matosinhos (Portugal), Valence, Saint-Quentin (France) 2013 - 2016: retrospective about the film Kali le petit vampire (Kali the Little Vampire) - Gentilly, Orly (France), Recife (Brazil), Bairut (Lebanon), Vila do Conde, Montemor-o-Novo, Lisbon (Portugal) 2013 - 2021: retrospective Light Traces - Amares, Lisbon, Braga, Alcobaça (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Conversano (Italy) 2020: retrospective about the film Tio Tomás, a Contabilidade dos Dias (Uncle Thomas Accounting for the Days) - Vila do Conde (Portugal)

FILMOGRAPHIE