About

Directing, cinematography and editing

Portuguese filmmaker and master’s student in Film Studies at Lusófona University in Lisbon. Her work moves between documentary and fiction, exploring questions of looking, presence, and the relationship between the filmmaker and those being filmed. Alongside her filmmaking practice, she writes film criticism and develops short films and artistic projects. She is interested in working with non-actors and in how their experiences and memories help shape a film. In her most recent projects, she has also been exploring shooting on film.

Lisbon, Portugal
A portrait of Rita Costa in profile, in black and white.
RITA COSTA