Catarina Ruivo

BIOGRAPHIE

Born in 1971 in Coimbra, Portugal, Catarina Ruivo studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School in 1995/1996, where she specialised in editing. She worked as an editor on a number of films, including ‘Mal’ (Venice Film Festival competition 1999) and ‘The Girl with the Dead Hand’ (Short Super-Short section of the 2005 Venice Film Festival), both by Alberto Seixas Santos, and ‘The Policewoman’, by Joaquim Sapinho (Panorama, Berlin International Film Festival, 2003). Her first venture into filmmaking as a director was in 1998 with the short ‘A Kind of Blue’, which was selected for the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. In 2004 she made her first feature film, ‘André Valente’. The film was premiered at the Locarno Festival, where it won the FICC/IFFS’s Don Quixote award, before going on to win a number of prizes at other festivals.

FILMOGRAPHIE