Margarida Leit\u00e3o is Guest Adjunct Professor at School of Theatre and Film - Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. A PhD student in Arts \u2013 Performing Arts and the Moving Image at the Lisbon University and Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, and Master in Cinematographic Project Development, in the specialty of Dramaturgy and Directing and Degree in Cinematographic Editing, by School of Theatre and Film, dhe holds the title of Specialist in Arts \/ Cinema \/ Editing by the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. She worked as a film professional in editing, directing and annotation. She directed several short fiction films and documentaries that were shown in festivals around the world and on television. Her first film, Kilandukilu\/Divers\u00e3o (1998), received an honourable mention at the Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival. The short film A Ferida (2003) and the documentary Muitos Dias tem um M\u00eas (2010) were awarded in national festivals and had their commercial debut. The documentary for television Design Behind Bars received the Best Transfrontera Documentary Award at the Extrema'Doc International Festival. Gipsofila (2015), besides other national and international awards, received the Special Jury Award at the Turin International Festival. She has also directed other films: the audio-visual essay Gestures of Realism (2016); the documentaries Brave Youth (2014), Face to Face (2013) and Kill Time (2009), and the short fiction films Ideal Woman (2015), Zoo (2011) and Part of Me (2005).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Margarida Leit\u00e3o \u00e9 Professora Adjunta Convidada da Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema- Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Lisboa. Doutoranda em Artes \u2013 Artes Performativas e da Imagem em Movimento, pela Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Lisboa. Mestre em Desenvolvimento de Projeto Cinematogr\u00e1fico, na especialidade de Dramaturgia e Realiza\u00e7\u00e3o e Licenciada em Montagem Cinematogr\u00e1fica, pela […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculum.labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}