José Miguel Ribeiro studied Fine Arts at the School of Belas-Artes in Lisbon and started working as an animator in 1990. In 1999 he did A Suspeita, short animated stopmotion film with which he was awarded 26 international awards, highlighting the Cartoon d’Or in 2000. In 2004, he made a cartoon series of 1.40 minutes Home Things that consists of 26 episodes, where the protagonists are the things that are in a house: the mop, the toothbrush, the glasses, the vacuum cleaner etc. The series was honored with several international awards. In 2017, he won the prize for best animated documentary Fragments in Clermont-Ferrand. In 2022 he directed his first animated feature film Nayola.
