
Birthday: June 16, 1961
António Costa Valente holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and Technologies from the University of Aveiro. He was a visiting professor at the public universities of Aveiro and Vila Real and director of the Theater and Cinema Department at ESAP – Escola Superior Artística do Porto. He directs the AVANCA Film Festival since 1997, the scientific conference AVANCA|CINEMA since 2010 and coordinates the “Prémio Eng.º. Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador ”, awarded annually to the best academic research on cinema. He is coordinator of Europe in the “International Federation of Film Societies” and national coordinator of “INPUT-TV”, an international conference that annually brings together public televisions from around the world. He is co-editor of the “International Journal of Cinema”. He has produced and directed films that have been distinguished with more than three hundred awards at festivals on all continents. Among them, he produced and co-directed the first feature film of Portuguese animation cinema. He is the author of several books, book chapters and other scientific publications. It has several doctoral and master’s thesis orientations completed. He is a reviewer of several national and international scientific conferences and journals. Research Interests: Cinema studies; Communication Sciences and Technologies; Art Studies; Artistic expressions. Latests Publications: Costa Valente, A. (2020). Viagens pelo Éter, um cinema após 2008. Avanca, Portugal: debatEvolution. ISBN 978-989-54075-7-6 Costa Valente, A. (2020). (des)possível prefácio. In Federico Fellini a inevitabilidade da arte (pp. 7-12). debatEvolution, 7-12. Avanca, Portugal: debatEvolution. ISBN 978-989-54075-6-9 Costa Valente, A. (2019). Entre dois Planos Nacionais – o reduzido cinema português e o grande espaço da literatura (pp.47-59). In Cinema e Outras Artes I: Diálogos e Inquietudes Artísticas. Covilhã, Portugal: Labcom IFP. ISBN: 978-989-654-583-3 Guzmán, N., Lloret, N., Costa Valente, A. (2019). Plataformas de creación colaborativa em el audiovisual. In Avanca Cinema (pp. 859-865). Edições Cineclube de Avanca, 2019. https://doi.org/10.37390/ac.v0i0.80

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