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Pedro Crispim
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Pedro Crispim Santos Álvaro
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Pedro Crispim initiated his studies on theatre (2010) at Academia Contemporânea do Espetáculo, and graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual (2013) from Escola Superior Artística do Porto. He completed his master's degree in Audiovisual Communication (2016) from Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, with the dissertation: "O cinema dos espaços fechados: Padrões, temáticas e estilísticas da mise-en-scène em espaços de clausura". Later, he obtained a postgraduate diploma in Screenwriting (2019) from Escola Superior de Media, Artes e Design, and his PhD in Communication Sciences: Cinema and Television (2022) from Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of NOVA University of Lisbon, with the thesis "Resgates da câmara: Intimidade e unidade de espaço no cinema de ficção narrativo" on the relation between intimacy and unity of place in fiction film. He was also involved in short-film projects, mainly his short-film "Clowns" (2015), winner of the Sophia Student Award, and as Manuel Mozos' assistant director in "The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal" (2015). He is an Invited Assistant Professor of Film Aesthetics at ESAP and a researcher at CEAA.