Academic Board and Staff
RE:ANIMA has an Academic Board composed of members from the three universities in the consortium. The Board hold periodical meetings to discuss and decide on all matters related to the academic life of the programme, from the selection process to students’ supervision and evaluation. The staff members are responsible for several administrative and practical questions related to the programme.
Academic Board
Sandra Rocha – cONSORTIUM COORDINATOR
Sandra studied Communication Sciences and Audiovisual and is currently responsible for the Cooperation Projects Office for the Film and Media Arts Department at Lusófona University.
For the past years she has been managing all cooperation actions between partners, both from academia and industry, namely several cooperation projects under Media Programme Training and Erasmus Plus. She is the consortium coordinator for RE.ANIMA and Kino Eyes Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree and local manager for Docnomads Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree.
GEERT VAN GOETHEM
LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS
Geert Van Goethem is producer and director, specialising in animation films. He teaches Production, Production Management and Project Development at the Brussels based Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS), and Film Analysis at LUCA School of Arts Campus C-mine in Genk (B). In 1987 he was co-founder of the Brussels based multidisciplinary production centre for the arts S.O.I.L. (Sight Of an Ignored Landscape), where he still is artistic director. Over the years this organisation became a leading independent production centre for the arts in Belgium. Many of its productions were internationally awarded. In 2005 Geert was nominated for the prestigious Flanders Culture Award. He was a member of the General Assembly of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), and the General Assembly of the Institute for Visual and Audiovisual Arts (BAM) in Brussels. He also was a member of the jury at several international film festivals.
JOÃO MIGUEL REAL
Universidade Lusófona
João Miguel Real is an award-winning Animation Film Director working in animation for the last 15 years in several animation studios. With a degree in Engineering, he has taken the path of animation, as an animator, compositor, and film director and his expertise has enabled him to work with different animation techniques as Stop Motion, 2D Digital Animation and 3D. Today he is Producer and Director of Easylab Animation Studio, where he researches new approaches in animation techniques. He’s been also Invited Assistant Professor at Lusófona University for the last 7 years in the Digital Animation Degree while enrolled in his final year as Phd student in Media Arts. Currently, he is Co-coordinator of REANIMA, European Joint-Master in Animation and member of the development committee of FilmEU, European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts.
PAULO VIVEIROS
Universidade Lusófona
Paulo Viveiros holds a PhD in Film Studies and a MA in Video Art both from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an Associate Professor and the Head of the MA in Animation Arts and the Graduation Course in Digital Animation both at Universidade Lusófona. He is a member of the R&D research unit CICANT – Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies. He is also a jury member of the Portuguese Film Institute (ICA) for animation public competitions for financial support.
TANJA BASTAMOW
AALTO UNIVERSITY
Tanja Bastamow is digital artist who has been working as a freelancer in virtual set design, 3D animation and post production for virtual & augmented reality, film, television and experimental games since 2000. In addition to this, she has a long career in teaching digital design methods as a full-time lecturer as well as a part-time teacher. Her key areas of interest are immersive virtual environments, finding new visual styles in digital expression, how new technology affects visual storytelling, and integrating digital tools with analogue working methods. She is currently studying for PhD, doing research on the performative and aesthetic possibilities of real-time virtual scenography.
TUULA LEINONEN
AALTO UNIVERSITY
Executive in Residence Tuula Leinonen is animation director, teacher and researcher, who also has a long career in managing animation networking and developing projects with organisations from both private and public sector in Finland. She currently works as an executive in residence, who is responsible for teaching, research and curriculum of the Master’s programme in Animation at the Aalto University. In addition, she has directed several short films since 1990 and is the author of the comprehensive book 100 vuotta suomalaista animaatiota (100 years of Finnish Animation). She has curated several animation screenings and organised the international Animatricks Animation Film Festival as a board member for many years.
Virgilio Vasconcelos
LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS
Virgilio Vasconcelos is lecturer and researcher at LUCA School of Arts, Campus C-mine in Genk. He has a PhD in Arts from UFMG (Brazil), where he taught 3D and digital 2D animation and performed research on both animation theory and practice. At LUCA, he coordinates the research cluster “Critical Reflections of and through animation”, investigating topics of Decoloniality and how its matrix of power (including but not limited to race, gender and knowledge) relates to animation. He also has large experience in using Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) for animation, having published a book about character animation and rigging with Blender. virgiliovasconcelos.net
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Pedro Caetano
Universidade Lusófona
Pedro Caetano studied Cinema in Lusófona University, and since 2013 he handles the course secretariat of DocNomads-Lisbon and Kino Eyes.
He is also responsible for the content management of social media platforms in the Film and Media Arts Department of Lusófona University.
Nino Saracino
LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS
Riina Kontkanen
AALTO UNIVERSITY